bzip3 vs paq8px

bzip3

A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. (by kspalaiologos)

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PAQ8PX compression archiver (by hxim)

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bzip3		paq8px
	Project
12	Mentions	4
646	Stars	192
-	Growth	-
7.1	Activity	1.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	16 days ago
C	Language	C++
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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bzip3

Posts with mentions or reviews of bzip3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.

Bzip2 Format Specification [pdf]
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024

Kamila Szewczyk is working on a bzip3 to improve the state-of-the-art in the domain of compressors based on Burrows-Wheeler:
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
I’m keeping fingers crossed for the project. Especially given that the author is 19 and her best work is yet to come.
In need of crazy compression
4 projects | /r/compression | 15 Oct 2022

bzip3 : https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.
2 projects | /r/compression | 12 May 2022

1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 10 May 2022
There is BZip2 and now BZip3, but what about BZip1?
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 10 May 2022

BZip3 repository.
GitHub - kspalaiologos/bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.
1 project | /r/programming | 10 May 2022
Bzip3 – a better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 10 May 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 10 May 2022

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2022
Hacker News top posts: May 10, 2022
6 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 10 May 2022

Bzip3 – a better and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2\ (40 comments)

paq8px

Posts with mentions or reviews of paq8px. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.

In need of crazy compression
4 projects | /r/compression | 15 Oct 2022

paq8px : https://github.com/hxim/paq8px
Is there any format like .7z or cmix only for archiving pictures?
1 project | /r/compression | 13 Jul 2022
Dictionary Compression
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2022

paq8px v206 [1] with option "-8art" compresses it to 9,145 bytes using ~2GB of memory in 82s, mostly due to a better pre-training stage.
[1] https://github.com/hxim/paq8px

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bzip3 and paq8px you can also consider the following projects:

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

RoaringBitmap - A better compressed bitset in Java: used by Apache Spark, Netflix Atlas, Apache Pinot, Tablesaw, and many others

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

mcm - MCM file compressor

brotli - Brotli compression format

Hacking-F117A - My investigation into mission generation in the Stealth Fighter games by Microprose.

Kornia - Geometric Computer Vision Library for Spatial AI

peridot - A fast functional language based on two level type theory

cstore_fdw - Columnar storage extension for Postgres built as a foreign data wrapper. Check out https://github.com/citusdata/citus for a modernized columnar storage implementation built as a table access method.

apple2idiot - A general purpose ESP32 IOT board for the Apple IIe

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.