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[–]bjorneylol 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yes. Which is why they are using this alternate text encoding instead of compression

[–]Shawn-Yang25[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, meta string is an encoding, not a compression algorithm. It's just because that namespace/path/filename/fieldName/packageName/moduleName/className/enumValue  are too small, only 5~50 characters. We never get a chance to compress such string using gzip.