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Re:A poor entropy coding result in Zstandard by TinkersW on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:48AM (#37736943)
Might do better if swiveled it so all the upper 8 bits are stored contiguous, then all the lower 8 bits-- zstd likes bytes.
Re:A poor entropy coding result in Zstandard by Ono-Sendai on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:26AM (#37751578)
Yes I think you are right. From looking at the zstd source, as far as I can tell the entropy coder operates on bytes only.