Table 1.

Different methods for different length regimes and for different purposes. Here, LZW represents the set of statistical lossless compression algorithms. MDL, minimum description length; BDM, block decomposition method.

Method	Regime	Outcome	Capability/
	of Application		Reach
LZW, MDL, MML and similar	long strings	length of an often obfuscated file	statistical only
CTM or similar	short strings	large set of small computer programs generating the data	algorithmic
CTM + BDM	short and long strings	none compared to alternatives	algorithmic and statistical