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They should have named it letter-zip, along the lines of gzip, bzip, and xzip, with the extension letterz. "fz" would have been a good one since they work at Facebook.
Looks very interesting, however I'm not impressed by the name. "Zstandard"??? With ".zstd" as the extension? I don't like it. They should have named it letter -zip, along the lines of gzip, bzip, and xzip, with the extension letter z. "fz" would have been a good one since they work at Facebook.
Looks very interesting, however I'm not impressed by the name. "Zstandard"??? With ".zstd" as the extension? I don't like it. They should have named it letter -zip, along the lines of gzip, bzip, and xzip, with the extension letter z. "fz" would have been a good one since they work at Facebook.
Looks very interesting, however I'm not impressed by the name. "Zstandard"??? With ".zstd" as the extension? I don't like it. They should have named it letter -zip, along the lines of gzip, bzip, and xzip, with the extension letter z. "fz" would have been a good one since they work at Facebook.
Looks very interesting, however I'm not impressed by the name. "Zstandard"??? With ".zstd" as the extension? I don't like it. They should have named it letter -zip, along the lines of gzip, bzip, and xzip, with the extension letter z. "fz" would have been a good one since they work at Facebook.
Some more benchmarks on this[0] page Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? [0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks like the author of zstd (github.com/Cyan4973) is now…
> the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We recently renamed https://github.com/D-Programming-Language to https://github.com/dlang , and e.g. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd redirects in the same way.
Some more benchmarks on this[0] page Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? [0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks like the author of zstd (github.com/Cyan4973) is now…
It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Upon looking further, it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now; the repo would have been thus transferred to Facebook. Author's blog [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 [1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/
Yep, and Google too
https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd
> it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now
yep https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73
On another note, wonder what happens when personal and professional lives can interfere. The profile of Yann Collet in the blog post is the above link and I can't help but think, why am I on faceook looking at a baby's picture on someone's profile instead of Github or at least LinkedIn? Seems like something he might want to keep private (and yes, I'm totally assuming here, I don't know his preferences)
Now, I know you can restrict the stuff you post to friends only instead of public like he did, but it is still something people(and facebook for its employees) should consider if they want their facebook profile to become their professional contact page.
"The x-axis is a decreasing logarithmic scale in megabytes per second; the y-axis is the compression ratio achieved."
I'd love to see a version of this chart that also included Brotli. (And I'm somewhat surprised Brotli isn't mentioned at all.)
(Disclaimer: I work at Google, which made Brotli)
