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Re:Epic acquires RAD Game Tools by duskwuff on Thursday January 07, 2021 @04:26PM (#25677742)
Especially compression. The compression provided by RAD Tools is nothing short of otherworldly -- it can provide compression ratios comparable to XZ, but with decompression speeds more along the lines of what you'd expect from gzip (or even better).

I hope that Epic does something interesting with what RAD has built here. Taking it more proprietary (e.g, halting new licensing) would be a huge blow for the industry.

Re:Epic acquires RAD Game Tools by glandium on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:45AM (#25682228)
How does it compare with zstandard these days?
Re:Epic acquires RAD Game Tools by jacobolus on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:31AM (#25682474)
Cbloom has a bunch of blog posts with charts purporting to show it doing significantly faster decoding than zstd at every choice of compression ratio.

I would trust him to run his own benchmarks fairly and properly, but I am not sure if there have been good independent benchmarks done.