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Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Mon, 13 November 2017 03:20 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:20:24 +0800
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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Zstandard compression
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Keeping in mind that I'm mostly running process here and not competent in
the underlying technologies:

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
wrote:

> stuff that I couldn't see addressed in the draft or in the thread:
>
> - choice of name - is it still open? (anything with "standard" in the name
> probably isn't)
>

I can ask what the origin of the name is, but given the number of
implementations that already exist, changing it now might be rather
annoying.

- target application domain (text, video, images, "other")
>

Arbitrary.  The web site where the work is based (http://www.zstd.net)
doesn't identify a specific use case that's targeted.

- performance (I don't think any of these techniques are novel, so
> performance should be known)
>

Substantial performance comparison is available at the above URL.

- IPR
>

In compliance with BCPs 78 and 79.

-MSK

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