fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
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Fast and effective C++ file optimizer
7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2022-06-07 · latest 2026-05-19
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…[1] is (still?) the best solution in this space and has been my go-to tool for this purpose. [1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
comment by lifthrasiir · 2026-05-19 · in Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker -
…Including this guy who forked it, and tried to contribute a couple improvements back to master: https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool These days if you’re going to iterate on a solution you’d better make it multithreaded. We…
comment by hinkley · 2025-01-27 · in My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5% -
…If this software is still being maintained, it would be a good choice to switch to ECT now. [1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
comment by lifthrasiir · 2024-06-13 · in Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script -
Would be interesting to see how all those jpegs fared if run though ECT ( https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool ). I’ve found it can save a surprising amount of space sometimes.
comment by jrmg · 2023-12-08 · in It's the future – you can stop using JPEGs -
You’ll want to add ECT to the comparison. https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
comment by aendruk · 2022-08-31 · in Losslessly Optimising Images -
…Getting a better result doesn't even take more time! Commands: ect --strict -9 pngcrush -brute [1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
comment by bscphil · 2022-06-07 · in OptiPNG vs. PNGcrush vs. Gimp to Reduce PNG Size -
…(a longer prefix code means a larger file). [1] https://css-ig.net/benchmark/png-lossless [2] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
comment by lifthrasiir · 2022-06-07 · in OptiPNG vs. PNGcrush vs. Gimp to Reduce PNG Size