> As for how to estimate entropy, isn't that just a matter of feeding it

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> through zlib and compare the output size to the input size? Especially

> if we're already about to feed it through zlib anyway... In other

> words, feed (an initial part of) the data through zlib, and if the

> compression ratio so far looks good, keep going and write out the

> compressed object, otherwise abort zlib and write out the original

> object with compression level 0.

This if probably off topic now, but as the OP, I'd like to mention

that I tried setting pack.compression = 0 and it did not solve my

memory issues. So it seems to be that the packing itself that is

sucking up all the memory -- not the compression.
Thanks for all the insightful replies!
-Ken

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