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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 1, 2013 9:16 UTC (Fri) by nmav (subscriber, #34036)
In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by keeperofdakeys
Parent article: Google releases a better compression algorithm

Indeed. However I'd suggest looking at plzip instead of the xz tools. I was surprized by the difference in compression ratio between them, even if they are based on the same compression algorithm.

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html


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