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Just released an online/itch.io tool PXAVIZ which lets you visualize the PICO-8's "PXA" compression as you type. Hope it helps folks develop an intuition for optimizing compressed code size in their carts. In short, PXA compresses very well with repeated blocks of characters, and does better than normal with recently used characters (that fall outside copied blocks). 

This is a fantastic tool - thank you Carl for making it. 🙏
Should prove very helpful in crushing some much-needed bytes for my entry! 😅

Fascinating! I will be playing with this and my sources to learn more about how the compression works :-)

Really nice tool, thank you Carl 🙏

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Glad some people are finding it useful! There's been a few updates based on people's suggestions; feel free to give your feedback or suggest improvements you'd like to see and I'll do my best to accommodate.