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mirekrusin on Oct 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: UTF-8 history (2003)

Exactly, so you arrived at the same conclusion - fixed distance so you can safely pick up stream at arbitrary position.

kstenerud on Oct 13, 2019 [–]

The difference is that the distance limits would be inherent to the codec itself, rather than taking up extra space in the data stream.

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