To enter, a competitor must submit a compression program and a decompressor that decompresses to the file enwik8.

It is also possible to submit a compressed file instead of the compression program.

The table below shows the compressed sizes of the 14 file Calgary corpus using both methods for some popular compression programs.

As impressive as Stacker is, users should contemplate several potential perils before employing a compression program.

As compression technology progresses, users may use different compression programs without having to modify or abandon their archiver.

Come on, I need the weight to trigger the compression program... it's got some bugs.

Some new compression programs select particular waves that work best for particular subjects.

The compression programs of following are available from external links.

As predicted, the compression program did not do as good a job when the languages of the two texts were different.

All compression programs work the same way.