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<p>rzip is a huge-scale <a href="/facts/Data_compression/gMFuY4FT">data compression</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_program/e38jH9N9">computer program</a> designed around initial <a href="/facts/LZ77/HGH09JM9">LZ77</a>-style string matching on a 900 MB dictionary window, followed by <a href="/facts/Bzip2/waffQ2m0">bzip2</a>-based <a href="/facts/Burrows%25E2%2580%2593Wheeler_transform/yxIc9E94">Burrows–Wheeler transform</a> and entropy coding (<a href="/facts/Huffman_coding/dBgMBz48">Huffman</a>) on 900 kB output chunks. </p>