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Yep, Zstd is the spiritual successor to LZ4 and written by the same person (Yann Collet) after they got hired by Facebook.
by julian37 6y ago
Yep, Zstd is the spiritual successor to LZ4 and written by the same person (Yann Collet) after they got hired by Facebook.
- smueller1234 6y agoActually, I seem to recall that he was working on it before getting hired by Facebook (unless there was a massive delay in the hiring to become known). I was following his excellent blog posts on the matter at the time.
- thechao 6y agoYann wrote LZ4 and Zstd well before joining FB. I have to applaud FB for supporting Yann's work, though.
- tmd83 6y agoYes it was a fully working things before facebook. There has been a lot of improvement in both the core and cli. But the core innovations of zstd was well established before facebook. I was probably following his blogs (even though I wasn't a compression expert) for months before I saw the post about his joining facebook.