[Commodore users] Any compression routine which irretrievably loses
valuable data in the process of {crunch}ing it. Disparagingly used
for `lossy' methods such as JPEG. The theory, of course, is that
these methods are only used on photographic images in which minor
loss-of-data is not visible to the human eye. The term pixel sort
implies distrust of this theory. Compare {bogo-sort}.
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