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>which can be compressed further

Can it? I think of a bloom filter as similar to a lossy compression scheme and wouldn't expect it to be further compressible to any significant extent using a general purpose lossless scheme. Similar to how general purpose compressors generally don't do very well with mp3s or jpgs.



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