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Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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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 contributing[1] to github.com/facebook/zstd

And the page layout for lz4[2] looks the same as zstd[0]

Anyone know if Yann Collet works for/with facebook on things other than zstd?

EDIT 2: In the time it took me to google a couple things, looks like the children comments have already answered my questions.

Also, previous discussions on zstd (not that its completely relevant) -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_...

[1]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/312 [2]: http://cyan4973.github.io/lz4/

Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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post #2

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…

Cyan4973 is hired by Facebook. He is famous author of LZ4. Likely they decided to move their sponsor project to their organization most likely for PR.

Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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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/

Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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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.

Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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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…

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Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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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…

Presumably the ownership of the repo was transfered from Cyan4973, the main contributor, to facebook, and github automatically redirects.

Re: Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard

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post #2

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…

Presumably the ownership of the repo was transfered from Cyan4973, the main contributor, to facebook, and github automatically redirects.

yep, looks like it. Maybe just forgot to update the gh-pages branch.
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