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Google releases a better compression algorithm

Google releases a better compression algorithm

Posted Mar 4, 2013 17:59 UTC (Mon) by nbd (subscriber, #14393)
In reply to: Google releases a better compression algorithm by rbrito
Parent article: Google releases a better compression algorithm

Why bother sticking to gzip compatible, when you can already use LZMA/xz for things like initrd/initramfs or even the full kernel (assuming you have a compatible loader). The compression ratio of xz is much, much better than zopfli


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