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with the right tuning, high compression + boost > low compression + same boost level
Right. Boost is a way of compensating for the compression; all boost or a compression ratio does is cram more air and fuel into your same sized cylinder. The only reason to use boost instead of engine tuning to do it is because it's a LOT tougher (and far more expensive) to get equivalent performance all motor.