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0 pointsJosephRedfern5y ago0 comments

Surely Dropbox would have the engineering power to re-implement zstd in a memory safe language if it was sufficiently beneficial.

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nawgz5y ago

I'm sure they could implement it technically speaking, but if a compression protocol is not widespread enough to have others doing such a thing, they can probably consider that a sign of how supported it is.

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0 pointsJosephRedfern5y ago0 comments

Surely Dropbox would have the engineering power to re-implement zstd in a memory safe language if it was sufficiently beneficial.

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nawgz5y ago

I'm sure they could implement it technically speaking, but if a compression protocol is not widespread enough to have others doing such a thing, they can probably consider that a sign of how supported it is.

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