Re:Compression Benchmarks: brotli, gzip, xz, bz2
by hthh on Saturday November 28, 2015 @05:24AM
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"It's weird how there are like two alternate realities of data compression.
"There's people who actually know WTF they're doing. (eg. encode.ru & the DCC's and so on). In that world you have compressors like PAQ, Nanozip, lzturbo, tornado, CCM, ZCM, Zstd, LZ4, BMF, BCIF, gralic, etc. etc.
"Then there's the mainstream world, where people still think gzip is state of the art (or ooh real modern bzip2), and they invent new things like brotli and webp and seem to not pay any attention to that alternate reality where the experts live. They sometimes do good work, but it's just a little odd."
"There's people who actually know WTF they're doing. (eg. encode.ru & the DCC's and so on). In that world you have compressors like PAQ, Nanozip, lzturbo, tornado, CCM, ZCM, Zstd, LZ4, BMF, BCIF, gralic, etc. etc.
"Then there's the mainstream world, where people still think gzip is state of the art (or ooh real modern bzip2), and they invent new things like brotli and webp and seem to not pay any attention to that alternate reality where the experts live. They sometimes do good work, but it's just a little odd."
- Charles Bloom, 10-02-15 (http://www.cbloom.com/rambles.html)