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SQLite Compressed Text History Prototypes

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Originally published on Simon Willison's Weblog by Simon Willison

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SQLite Compressed Text History Prototypes

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The article proposes storing text revision histories in SQLite efficiently. The idea involves compressing a JSON array of all prior text versions. Zlib or ZSTD compression is suggested for high redundancy reduction. The history would be stored in a BLOB column within the database. The author discussed this prototype idea using ChatGPT's GPT-Live voice mode.

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This is a really clever idea. Storing revision history efficiently is a common problem, and the simple elegance of compressing a JSON array of strings makes a lot of sense. I love that he bounced the idea off GPT-Live; it's a great example of using AI as a sounding board for technical concepts.

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