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0 pointsjacobolus10y ago0 comments

Brotli is a text/markup compression codec with a big dictionary of English words and chunks of html. Why would you use it for binary data?

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legulere10y ago

Even though it's optimized for text, doesn't mean it's not also better for binary. For instance it's also used for binary font files in WOFF2 and seems to perform very well.

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