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SQLite compressed text-history prototypes

Simon Willison's Blog ↗ · 2026-08-09 Cached

Simon Willison experiments with storing SQLite text revision histories as compressed JSON arrays, comparing whole-blob and chunked storage approaches. A simulation of 1,000 edits compressed 20.4 MB of revision text into 80.3 KB using Zstandard.

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