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rotemdan / lzutf8.js

A high-performance Javascript string compression library
MIT License
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Chance to optimize the bundle size? #47

Closed chunlaw closed 2 years ago

chunlaw commented 2 years ago

It is no doubt that lzutf8 is way faster than lz-string. However, the bundle size of lzutf8 is ~80KB, compared to lz-string is just ~5KB.

Would you consider to optimize the bundle size, esp., readable-stream contributes ~40% of bundle size.

rotemdan commented 2 years ago

Hi, the documentation you're reading was written in 2014. Since then many other compression libraries appeared. Many of which are better alternatives to this one (faster and with higher compression ratios), especially ones optimized with WebAssembly (I can't give you exact names though).

The comparison with lz-string is not relevant anymore.

The library is out-of-date and not actively maintained. It will require a full rewrite to update for newer technologies. I don't have time for that unfortunately.

I am considering adding a deprecation notice to the readme. Still thinking about the wording for now.

rotemdan commented 2 years ago

I added a deprecation note to the readme file.

chunlaw commented 2 years ago

Although it is deprecated, it is really a great work. The performance is still faster than lz-string for 3x-6x times. Anyway, thank you for your great contributions.