Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by UltimateEdge » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 12:08 AM UTC

Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script
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Re: Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by gendelve » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 12:29 AM UTC

Nice. I could see plugging this into GenAI interfaces generated on the go

Re: Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by lifthrasiir » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

For the usual case of DEFLATE-based formats (PNG, ZIP) and JPEG, ECT [1] is the best available tool; to my best knowledge it dominates the entire Pareto frontier in this area, beating Zopfli and ADVPNG/OUT for most cases. If this software is still being maintained, it would be a good choice to switch to ECT now.

[1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

Re: Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by userbinator » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 4:46 AM UTC

Additionally a number of 'junk' files such as Thumb.db and .ds_store are deleted from ZIP files.

That's no longer lossless.

Re: Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by ttyprintk » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 8:59 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #4

Additionally a number of 'junk' files such as Thumb.db and .ds_store are deleted from ZIP files. That's no longer lossless.

It shouldn’t be assumed lossless at any point, but metadata-preserving. They only use the word once in the doc, with regard to PDF.

Re: Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script

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Post by bradknowles » Sat, Jun 15, 2024, 11:47 PM UTC

I’m curious to know how this compares to other compression tools like brotli, zstd, and xz.

I guess I’ll have to include it in my own benchmarking suite I’m developing.