Zopfli & Brotli

Posted Nov 15, 2013 12:20 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131)
Parent article: Progress on smaller and more colorful fonts

I am confused about the relative performance of these algortihms. The article states that Brotli is comparable to LZMA. The only reference I could find was in the Zopfli paper, where it beats other zlib-compatible algorithms ("3.7-8.3 % smaller than gzip -9") -- but this is no match for LZMA.

Mudding the waters even further is the fact that the WOFF2 format seems to offer a choice between zlib and LZMA.