srecord noeq JE_CompressElementsIndividually(L<LByte> inputData) extends Probabilistic {
  CompressionRegime<S> regime = jeRegime();
  settable ICompressionStrategy elementCompressionStrategy;
  new L<CompressionSearch<S>> searches;
  
  // get current best compressed representation
  S code aka get() {
    ret formatFunctionCall ll(mapWithIndex(inputData,
      (i, data) -> {
        var search = _get(searches, i);
        S comp = search?.bestCompression();
        ret comp != null ? comp : jeLiteral(data);
      }));
  }

  // start compressors  
  run {
    if (elementCompressionStrategy == null) ret;
    
    probabilisticForEach(scheduler(), 1.0, 0.5, indexAsSideValue(inputData), data -> {
      int i = data.sideValue();
      var search = new CompressionSearch<S>(regime, data!);
      listSet(searches, i, search);
      ret elementCompressionStrategy.makeSearcher(search);
    });
  }
}