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Planètes, décors, machines, personnages... Je veux tout :P <@https://im-in.space/web/@noroanka/111913341057705258>
2 in the morning is a great time to compare compression algorithms.
Ratio File size Filename Command Algorithm
1 1458553185 build/
0.451 658022612 ../node-modules/
0.322 469704387 build.tar.Z compress -k build.tar Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) (oh, how far we've come)
0.185 269780511 build.tar.gz gzip -k9 build.tar Deflate
0.082 119839762 build.tar.bz2 bzip2 -zk9 build.tar Burrows–Wheeler transform
0.047 68258612 build.tar.br brotli -kZ build.tar Brotli
0.047 67989604 build.tar.zst zstd --ultra -22 build.tar Zstandard
0.046 67705992 build.tar.xz xz -zk9e build.tar Lempel–Ziv–Markov (LZMA)
0.046 is really mind-blowing. I don't need a torrent, we're approaching e-mail attachment file sizes here.
Good call tonight, touched on some interesting topics.
@david I don't want to discourage any idea, indeed I think it's a good one. I've read the whole RFC 770, so I think I understand the result, but not the why. My concern comes from the overhead of having to: