New lossless compression algorithm | brotli |

[ehthe]

Here's a new compression algorithm developed by google. It is lossless like a zip file (not like a mp3 file).
It is said to be better than lzma and zlib :

This new format allows us to get 20–26% higher compression ratios over Zopfli. In our study ‘Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms’ we show that Brotli is roughly as fast as zlib’s Deflate implementation. At the same time, it compresses slightly more densely than LZMA and bzip2 on the Canterbury corpus.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/09/introducing-brotli-new-compression.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli
https://github.com/google/brotli/
Get hyped !

 

[Derp]

Great thread, thank you