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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 depend…
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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 ex…
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, the…