# GlyphMatics Compression Metrics

GlyphMatics is a symbolic execution-compression system.

It does not claim that arbitrary entropy can be compressed into tiny strings. It compresses recoverable structure by storing verified generative glyphlines that activate a shared runtime prior.

## Metric Classes

### 1. Literal Glyphline Ratio

Expanded verified artifact bytes divided by canonical glyphline bytes.

Current verified example:

```text
10,832,459 expanded artifact bytes / 61 glyphline bytes = 177,581.30 : 1
This means the visible glyphline program triggered verified expansion into a much larger artifact chain.
2. Transport Image Ratio
Expanded verified artifact bytes divided by the literal PNG transport image size.
This measures the practical file-size ratio of the visible-image transport artifact.
3. Shared-Prior Ratio
Regenerated artifact bytes divided by sigil bytes, assuming the decoder already holds the required legal shared prior.
This is the ratio used for extreme GlyphMatics compression claims.
Boundary
A tiny sigil can represent a large artifact only when one of these is true:
The runtime already contains the required legal shared prior.
The artifact is generated by known rules/templates.
The artifact can be behaviorally reconstructed and verified.
The artifact is externally retrievable and hash-locked.
GlyphMatics does not losslessly compress arbitrary random bytes into tiny glyphlines.
Rule
Data → meaning → generator → glyphline → verified re-expansion.