It can still be compressed, just with a much lower ratio. I just did some testing on my PC with yesterday's messages log using gzip, bzip2, and xz. It compressed, but the randomized messages file compressed far less.
Edit: In case anyone is interested, test methodology and results: https://pastebin.com/pJDYXsPy
It can still be compressed, just with a much lower ratio. I just did some testing on my PC with yesterday's messages log using gzip, bzip2, and xz. It compressed, but the randomized messages file compressed far less.
Edit: In case anyone is interested, test methodology and results: https://pastebin.com/pJDYXsPy
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