[ELI5] What is a Compression Scheme?

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In data compression, what is the compression scheme?

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A compression scheme is simply the method used to compress data. So DEFLATE, LZMA, RLE etc.

You will see the word “scheme” used all over IT, basically it’s analogous to “method”, “implementation”, “template”, “algorithm” etc.

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