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   by blank_state 8mo ago

   Rust programmers have this "holier than you" attitude that is so toxic. It's essentially wokeism for programming. No wonder it originates from San Francisco, from all places. The language itself features interesting ideas, ma
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   by blank_state 1y ago

   you did not read the white paper then
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   Comparing gzip, brotli and zstd(gist.github.com)

   4 points by blank_state 10y ago|1 comments
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   by blank_state 10y ago

   This sounds extremely interesting. How do you generate the SDHC dictionary ? Would it be interesting to compare your results with Zstandard using the same SDHC ? It seems to have a strong dictionary mode.
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   by blank_state 10y ago

   The formatting is just so bad, let's retry it here : | Algo | compressed size | compression speed | decompression speed | | --------- | --------------- | ----------------- | ------------------- | | brotli -2 | 36223
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   by blank_state 10y ago

   > Of course it is an unfair example because of the static dictionary that brotli uses It is certainly a favorable ground for Brotli. Brotli claims an advantage in html compression, thanks to its integrated specialized dictionary. The rea
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   by blank_state 10y ago

   > Brotli's fastest compression is slightly faster than zstd's. Come on, this is not serious. Brotli's fastest compression algorithm is still significantly slower than zstd. And more importantly, it compresses _much worse_.