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Wirehair : O(N) Fountain Code for Large Data

7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-11-17 · latest 2025-05-03

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  1. …user has a whole host of different competently implemented very high performance erasure codes: https://github.com/catid/wirehair https://github.com/catid/leopard https://github.com/catid/fecal https://github.com/catid/siamese As far as…
    comment by nullc · 2025-05-03 · in Bloom Filters
  2. Has anybody used Wirehair in a project? https://github.com/catid/wirehair I'm curious if it's well-defined enough to base a standard around--informally if not formally--for building a large file archiving/data recovery project I've been…
    comment by wahern · 2024-08-26 · in Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems
  3. …[1] https://github.com/jabcode/jabcode [2] https://github.com/divan/txqr [3] https://github.com/catid/wirehair [4] https://github.com/sz3/cfc/releases/latest
    comment by sz3 · 2020-12-17 · in Show HN: Cimbar – File transfer via color barcodes and the Android camera
  4. https://github.com/catid/wirehair
    comment by nullc · 2020-08-02 · in I made an app that lets you split a file into horcruxes
  5. …implementation (1) or Wirehair (2)? Thoughts? 1) https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon 2) https://github.com/catid/wirehair
    comment by krspykrm · 2020-07-06 · in Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
  6. RaptorQ, even in this implementation, appears to be a lot slower than wirehair: https://github.com/catid/wirehair
    comment by nullc · 2019-03-30 · in RaptorQ and performance optimization in Rust
  7. …hybrid LDPC code which can be used like a Fountain code. It has astonishingly low overhead for one. https://github.com/catid/wirehair/
    comment by nullc · 2016-11-17 · in Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool