Dedup 2021 - Xtool -dd

The dataset shrank. Files once 200MB became 4KB—just the unique header and a pointer to the deduped block.

"Run xtool -dd dedup ," her supervisor had said. "Standard preprocessing. You'll thank me." xtool -dd dedup

The first GB vanished. Then ten. Then fifty. The dataset shrank

That's odd , she thought. Duplicates should have scattered fingerprints. This one was obsessive. xtool -dd dedup

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