Re: Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip vs. zstd

2024-02-07 Thread wrotycz
> The theoretical basis of zstd[2] seems more complicated than that of LZMA Well, it's new, from 2013/14, but it's actually not complicated, simpler and easier to understand and implement than arithmetic coding. In simple terms it is 'bit back arithmetic coding'. Zstd, and I guess LZFSE, ar

Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip vs. zstd

2016-10-19 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
l...@zaktouni.fr wrote: do you already have numbers, opinions and maybe a comparison in reliability, speed, compression ratio etc. against the new zstd? I have used unzcrash to test the ability of the zstd decoder to detect corruption by itself (without a checksum), and the results are not goo

Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip vs. zstd

2016-10-14 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hi Aruna, l...@zaktouni.fr wrote: do you already have numbers, opinions and maybe a comparison in reliability, speed, compression ratio etc. against the new zstd? Testing zstd is in my TODO list. My first impression is that it may perhaps be well suited for the needs of Facebook, but after a