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snvzz
10 months ago
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Chrome Feature: ZSTD Content-Encoding
For "realtime" compression, wouldn't lz4 make more sense?
Much lighter in both the server and the client.
bastawhiz
10 months ago
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LZ4 has quite poor compression, its advantage is speed. The difference between decompressing ten megs of data with LZ4 versus zstd is a completely negligible number when the difference in bytes sent over the wire is might approach a full megabyte.
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Much lighter in both the server and the client.