[Zlib-devel] Google's version of zlib code

Mark Adler madler at madler.net
Sun Mar 3 00:07:04 EST 2013


On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> 	Google publishes Zopfli as open-source compression algorithm to speed up Web download
> 	Compression is about 100 times slower than conventional methods but compresses about 5% better,

That's cool, but it seems like an awful lot of effort for a small improvement.  Perhaps it's time to add a better compression method to HTTP's accept-encoding.

Mark





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