Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

Re:Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard by cmurphycode on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:55PM (#12400567)

Imgur album now compares brotli and zstd. Looks like zstd is always significantly faster, but Brotli compresses slightly better for every dataset except the XML one.

This is with brotli level 1, by the way. My understanding is that brotli is pretty quick through the first few levels, but the levels that ask for the highest compression are insanely slow (which is a valuable thing to have as an option, for things like game assets or something, which are compressed once and delivered many times!)

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Re:Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard by wolf550e on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:14PM (#12401147)

For "compress once, decompress many times" workloads like game assets, you might want to check out Oodle, a proprietary library that kills zstd in decompression speed while achieving better compression ratios.

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2016/07/introducing-oodle-me...

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