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Re: by Agingcoder on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:32PM (#33616074)
I think zstd is originally not a Facebook project. https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-c...

I believe Yann Collet, author of lz4, eventually went on to work for Facebook and finished it there.

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Re: by Agingcoder on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:37PM (#33616153)
https://www.wired.com/2016/08/facebook-just-proved-isnt-hool... He was hired by Facebook during the 2015 summer, but the zstd announcement is dated jan 2015.
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