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		wolf550e on July 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms It's the current leader in performance: http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/p/compression-benchmark....

maaku on July 27, 2014 [–]

Speed != efficiency. Some of the tricks snappy uses e.g. not compressing at all, are not that interesting theoretically.

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