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Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

165 mentions on Hacker News by 112 people: 28 stories, 137 comments · first 2016-08-31 · latest 2026-09-07

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  1. …is an ongoing discussion about a jump table format that could contain dictionary locations [1]. [1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395
    comment by terrelln · 2017-04-07 · in Deploying Brotli for static content
  2. It depends on the "window size" used by the compressor. According to https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compressi... , the window size can be anywhere from 1KB to 1.875TB. The table mapping compression levels to window…
    comment by indygreg2 · 2017-03-07 · in Better Compression with Zstandard
  3. How does that play with BSD license file which presumably has no such restrictions: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/LICENSE
    comment by koolba · 2017-03-07 · in Better Compression with Zstandard
  4. …zstd is probably one of the most exciting new developments in compression. However this worries me: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/PATENTS --- The license granted hereunder will terminate [...] if you [...] initiate [...] any…
    comment by rdtsc · 2017-03-07 · in Better Compression with Zstandard
  5. Looks like they're using the BSD license in this project, https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/LICENSE So no need to worry about the patent clause in this case right?
    comment by jontro · 2017-02-06 · in Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads
  6. …with both its speed and compression ratio. The days of "just use zLib" are coming to a close. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
    comment by jdcarter · 2017-02-06 · in Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloads
  7. …compression speed vs. compression ratio. Decompressing is always fast. It was recently released: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
    comment by jakozaur · 2017-01-06 · in Bitpacking and Compression of Sparse Datasets
  8. …wrong. They probably would've preferred to avoid the outdated links that this[0] proves this. [0]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313
    comment by ktta · 2016-09-01 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
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    story by getcontext · 2016-09-01 · 0 comments
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    story by levbrie · 2016-08-31 · 0 comments
  11. Brotli is available in this graph - https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/images/DCspeed5... This seems to be slightly old doc - from April.
    comment by jithesh · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
  12. The README at https://github.com/facebook/zstd mentions brotli
    comment by justinsaccount · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
  13. The format itself is documented ( https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/master/zstd_compressio... ) with the intention of other implementations and language bindings being readily available. We also have a zlib-compatible API for easier…
    comment by ctur · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
  14. > the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We…
    comment by CyberShadow · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
  15. …link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? [0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks…
    comment by ktta · 2016-08-31 · in Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard