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pixel sort: n. [Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses
valuable data in the process of crunching it.
Disparagingly used for ‘lossy’ methods such as JPEG. The
theory, of course, is that these methods are only used on photographic
images in which minor loss-of-data is not visible to the human eye. The
term pixel sort implies distrust of
this theory. Compare bogo-sort.
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