Collet is GOAT in compression algorithms

Posted Jan 14, 2026 21:15 UTC (Wed) by NHO (subscriber, #104320)
Parent article: Format-specific compression with OpenZL

Collet's blog about compression and his development of Zstandard is fantastic and is recommended reading, I feel. https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/

I would love to read a similar series of articles on OpenZL.

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Collet is GOAT in compression algorithms

Posted Jan 15, 2026 5:52 UTC (Thu) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link]

Seconded! I had been following his XXH, LZ4, FSE and Zstd development years ago on his blog, as well as on encode.su (.ru by then) and his approach has always been very pragmatical, never strongly tied to his code, only reusing proven useful pieces and making forward progress in directions that deserved being explored. I, too, encourage reading his blog for anyone interested in data compression theory and the cache hierarchy impact on data access times.