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A computer system includes a compression engine for compressing a decompressed sequence of data to produce a compressed sequence of data. The compression engine encodes each piece of data in the decompressed sequence of data as either a portion of a copy token or as a literal token. Tokens are grouped together into groups of up to 8 tokens and a bitmap holding 8 bits is provided to identify the respective tokens as either copy tokens or literal tokens. The copy tokens encode sub-sequences of data that have previously occurred in the decompressed data sequence. Each copy token is of a like size but includes a variable-sized offset field for encoding an offset between a current occurrence of a sub-sequence of data and a previous occurrence of a sub-sequence of data. The offset field is variable-sized to encode the offset in a minimal number of bits. The computer system also includes a decompression engine for decompressing data sequences that have been compressed using the compression engine.

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