Do you even compress.bro?
Sep 23, 2015 by Chris Tonkinson filed under technology
Sep 23, 2015 by Chris Tonkinson
filed under technology
Google announced yesterday a new compression algorithm they call "Brotli." They bill it as
... a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling...
I'm no compression expert but I do know that the Lempel-Ziv algirothm offers one of the best speed:compression ratios for practical use, and Google claims that Brotli operates approximately as fast as zlib while achieving compression ratios 25% better than their previous algorithm, Zopfli.
Point is, I sincerely hope this format takes off and that they choose .bro
as the file extension. The tar-related jokes practically write themselves: "Do you even compress.bro?"