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Re:Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:48PM (#18530908)
So "real-time" here means "probably line speed", not "hard realtime (constant time per byte)", right? That's probably more impressive, but a bit ambiguous phrasing.
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Re:Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm by caf on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:20AM (#18531691)
Probably "online" would be a better term than "real-time" for this meaning.
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Re:Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm by twotwotwo on Sunday November 25, 2018 @11:48PM (#18531157)
Right, I think "fast" is the idea. Do know of at least one OSS compression lib for the other kind of realtime use case FWIW: https://github.com/atomicobject/heatshrink
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