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Daniel_Burfoot comments on Does Checkers have simpler rules than Go? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 19 August 2013 03:30:33PM *  1 point [-]

It's not the import statements that get compressed, it's the code beneath the imports that gets better compression because you limited the number of classes you imported. The compressor can compress references to class names to log(N) bits, where N is the number of class names that are in scope/imported.