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Lazy zopfli compression #18

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3rd-Eden opened this issue Mar 15, 2013 · 0 comments
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Lazy zopfli compression #18

3rd-Eden opened this issue Mar 15, 2013 · 0 comments

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Zopfli is a new compression algorithm written by fine folks over at Google. It's compatible with gzip/deflate but manages to squeeze the file contents more then gzip. This results in a 1% extra saving on average compared to a gzip -9.

But the downside is that takes 2 to 4 orders of a magnitude longer then regular gzip. In order to prevent blocking of the node process we could start this operation lazily after we have done a regular zlib operation which is much much faster. So there might a few users that receive a zlib version and the rest after it would receive a zopfli version.

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