Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard - Facebook Engineering
People are creating, sharing, and storing data at a faster rate than at any other time in history. When it comes to innovating on storing and transmitting that data, at Facebook we're making advancements not only in hardware — such as larger hard drives and faster networking equipment — but in software as well. Software [...]Read More...
31 Aug 2016 ... The fastest algorithm, lz4, results in lower compression ratios; xz, which has the highest compression ratio, suffers from a slow compression ...