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Guetzli means cookie in Swiss German, I wonder what inspired the devs to choose that name
by samch93 5y ago
Guetzli means cookie in Swiss German, I wonder what inspired the devs to choose that name
- mobilio 5y agoOther compression algo is Brotli (or brötli). Also popular Swiss pastry.
- nneonneo 5y agoBrotli, Zopfli, Guetzli, Butteraugli, ... Google's Zurich branch uses this particular naming scheme for their compression research projects.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoWhat other swiss foods ending in *li can we expect them to name future compression algorithms?
- dataflow 5y agoI'm guessing Gipfeli
- twotwotwo 5y agoIt exists! https://github.com/google/gipfeli https://github.com/google/gipfeli It was aiming for better compression than LZ4 at much higher speeds than deflate. Now brotli and zstd on their faster settings mostly beat it in that niche.
- dataflow 5y agoWow haha, that is amazing. Thanks for the find!
- 4ggr0 5y agoWeggli(Small bread tasting a bit like a Zopf), Hörnli(The kind of pasta americans use to make Mac n Cheese), Mütschli(Small bread which is a bit harder than a Weggli), Schnitteli(Piece of bread with jam or honey etc.), Schöggeli(Small chocolate), etc... Basically you can add -li to almost any word in swiss german and there are lots of words already which end with -li. It's a way to make a word sound "cute". As an example, "Auto" means car, but if we call it "Autöli" it means that it's either a toy car or just a little(,cute) car :)