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

[Marshall Clow]

On Mar 2, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Mark Adler <madler at madler.net> wrote:

> 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.  

I agree, but - 

There will be some people for whom a 5% size improvement will be *huge*.
People shipping on physical media, for example.

-- Marshall

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