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"Dictionary gains are mostly effective in the first few KB."

https://facebook.github.io/zstd/index.html

Pretrained dictionaries have never been intended to help with book sized or bigger compression. zstd automatically learns the most efficient dictionary it can within a few kilobytes. Pretrained dictionaries are only useful when you're independently compressing very small records.



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