Re:Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
by rincebrain on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @09:11PM
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There's also the various zlib forks by cloudflare et al, if you want to go down that road.
But yes, lz4 and zstd would be what I'd recommend people use.
Re:Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
by dralley on Thursday August 17, 2023 @12:38AM
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The code quality of some of the cloudflare changes is questionable. Optimizations aren't cleanly separated by commits, some of the licensing is dicey, etc.
zlib-ng tried to merge as much as they could from the cloudflare fork without getting into licensing issues.
Re:Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
by rincebrain on Thursday August 17, 2023 @02:28PM
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Oh, sure, it's all exciting in that respect from some of those, but I was more pointing to the collection of forks as a whole as a thing to evaluate if you have to look at zlib.
I would just go for lz4 and zstd, really, at this point, but if for some reason gzip is necessary or fits your use case better, ...
(Though I'd really like to hear what that is.)
Re:Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
by jandrese on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:14PM
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The only place gzip wins is in compatibility. Everything supports gzip. zstd, lz4, brotli, and others aren't included by default in most places yet, although the situation is starting to improve.
Plus, if you want super compatibility there is older-than-dirt pkzip/infozip.
Re:Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
by benatkin on Thursday August 17, 2023 @03:12AM
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it's optimal in that it's a community project and not an extremely unethical BigCorp project
That said, the igzip re-implementation is really good. If you can use it, igzip moves gzip closer to the optimal frontier.