Compression, Minification & HTTP: The Complete Guide to Making the Web Smaller
What is Compression? Compression means reducing the size of data by encoding it using fewer bits (0s and 1s) . In simple words: Compression reduces…
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Optimizing Disk I/O in NumPy: Implementing a Fast LZ4 Compression Algorithm via C-Extensions
pypi.org macht1212 / numpy-cache High-performance LZ4 cache for NumPy arrays NumPy Cache – Fast LZ4-Based Caching for NumPy Arrays High‑performance,…
We tested "tokenize before you compress" against 452 configurations, and it mostly held up
A few weeks ago my friend @u84u and I ( @ronak-create ) had a simple, slightly annoying question: if LLMs get 30-45% smaller representations of text…
Foxy Mail Wire: an open format for compressed & encrypted email
Internet mail still moves as MIME over IMAP and SMTP. That’s fine for delivery — bad if you want smaller messages or real end-to-end privacy of the…
I Benchmarked 42 Compression Formats Spanning Four Decades. Here's What to Actually Use.
I run ezyZip , a browser-based archive tool, so "which format should I use?" is a question I field constantly. The honest answer is usually "it depe…
I compressed timestamps before zstd and got up to 26.5% smaller log archives
This morning, I had fun compressing time. But before you picture me as a theoretical physics genius or a crackpot in need of a straitjacket, let me…
Structure Before Bytes: How Metarc Beats tar+zstd on Real Code
tar+zstd is very hard to beat. So I stopped trying to beat it as a byte compressor. Instead, I tried something else: compress the structure first, t…