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Recompression: zstd #16

Open M-Gonzalo opened 6 years ago

M-Gonzalo commented 6 years ago

Continuing the idea from issue #2, there is another compression algorithm that is becoming more popular day after day. We're talking about zstd, or Zstandard, a very fast and efficient method for on-the-fly compression and decompression.

Now it is included into the Linux kernel, squashfs, dpkg and apt, just to cite a few. It seems to be a trend aiming to replace good old deflate with zstandard.

Given it is a relatively weak algorithm and even faster than deflate, I want to propose a model to losslessly recompress streams of data packed with it. There is nothing done in this regard yet, so it is a long shot. But this is a fairytale! So I'm issuing this, nevertheless.

DedupOperator commented 6 years ago

+++ on ZSTD recompressor. :+1: This should be higher in priorities I'll kindely assist beta testing it to hell :)