I just ran that experiment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ggreer&#x2F;4eb3ad61e97926e559f6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;ggreer&#x2F;4eb3ad61e97926e559f6</a><p>ASCII is extremely repetitive. 1MB of random braces gzips down to 163KB. That&#x27;s a compression ratio of 6.1:1. Optimal compression would be close to 8:1 (since each byte really contains only one bit of information).