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Zip Files All The Way Down
The text discusses creating self-reproducing programs and files like zip files that can decompress to themselves. It explores using Lempel-Ziv compression for self-reproduction and the challenges of translating these concepts into real opcode encodings like DEFLATE used in gzip and zip files. The ultimate goal is to create a zip file that contains a larger copy of itself recursively, creating a chain of expanding zip files.
Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
FlatBuffers is a new serialization protocol released by Google engineers, similar to Cap’n Proto. Cap’n Proto allows random access using pointers, while FlatBuffers uses offsets stored in tables for random access. Protobufs, Cap’n Proto, and FlatBuffers have custom schema languages and different features for data serialization and access.
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