Snappy Compression Library (opens in new tab)

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11 pointsii416mo ago2 comments

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ii41OP6mo ago

Trades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.

Snappy is really old, open sourced in 2011. It is strictly worse than LZ4, which achieves a better compression ratio at better speed and vastly better decompression speed.

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Snappy Compression Library (opens in new tab)

(google.github.io)

11 pointsii416mo ago2 comments

2 comments

ii41OP6mo ago

Trades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.

lern_too_spel6mo ago

Snappy is really old, open sourced in 2011. It is strictly worse than LZ4, which achieves a better compression ratio at better speed and vastly better decompression speed.

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