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

[Greg Roelofs]

Mark Adler 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.

Agreed.  Other than a tiny, tiny handful of purveyors of static content--
someone like Akamai, perhaps, except they're probably contractually bound
not to screw with it and probably don't have the compute resources to waste
on it anyway--I can't imagine too many entities that would find this useful,
Google included.

> Perhaps it's time to add a better compression method to HTTP's accept-encoding.

LZMA seems like an obvious candidate.  There's probably room for a QuickLZ or
Zippy or similar on the other end (faster/worse), too.

Greg