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A fast compressor/decompressor

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-03-07 · latest 2025-04-21

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  1. …to favor speed. Check out those algorithms: * lz4: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/ * Google's snappy: https://github.com/google/snappy * Facebook's zstd in fast mode: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks
    comment by kccqzy · 2022-11-10 · in Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device
  2. https://github.com/google/snappy is ~250 MB/second per core and you can compress in chunks of whatever size is convenient for your GUI to uncompress and render.
    comment by benlivengood · 2021-05-01 · in Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps
  3. …the result set within your application. You should give it a try, you'll really like it :) [1] https://github.com/google/snappy
    comment by brickcap · 2016-03-07 · in Ask HN: What features would you like to see in the next generation of DBMSs?