smaz
Small strings compression library (by antirez)
zstd
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm (by facebook)
| smaz | zstd | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 121 | |
| 1,185 | 25,113 | |
| 0.0% | 1.4% | |
| 0.0 | 9.8 | |
| over 5 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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smaz
Posts with mentions or reviews of smaz.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-13.
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Advanced MessagePack capabilities
Choose the data compression algorithm based on the specifics of your data. For example, if you are working with lots of short strings, take a look at [*SMAZ](https://github.com/antirez/smaz).*
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Improving short string compression.
Take a look at this. Idea behind it seems nice, but it's fixed dictionary ("codebook") was clearly made for English language, and the algorithm itself is really simple. How can we impove on this? Dynamic dictionary won't do, since you have to store it somewhere, nullifying benefits of using such algorithm. Beyond that I have no idea.
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C Deep
smaz - Efficient string compression library. BSD-3-Clause
zstd
Posts with mentions or reviews of zstd.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-23.
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I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
Perhaps it's worth it adding this as a note at the top of the post, maybe mentioning alternatives, such as an Actually Portable™ build of `pigz`[1] or just a windows build of zstd[2].
[1] https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/tiny/pigz
[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/latest/
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Why do I find Rust inadequate for text compression codecs?
If zstd give you an error and you don't handle it, the next calls may cause UB, so it kinda does both things.
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/b16d193512d3ded82fd584...
- Zstandard v1.5.7 brings performance enhancements
- Zstandard v1.5.7
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Lzbench Compression Benchmark
( https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.5.6 )
In my opinion, it is better to check the original repository: https://github.com/inikep/lzbench
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DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
This. Even their less known work is pretty solid[1] ( used it the other day and was frankly kinda amazed at how well it performed under the circumstances ). Facebook/Meta sucks like most social madia does, but, not unlike Elon Musk, they are on the record of having some contributions to society as a whole.
[1]https://github.com/facebook/zstd
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New standards for a faster and more private Internet
I don't think so? It's only seekable with an additional index [1], just like any other compression scheme.
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/seekable_f...
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Large Text Compression Benchmark
- latest zstd v1.5.6 ( Mar 30, 2024 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases )
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Current problems and mistakes of web scraping in Python and tricks to solve them!
You may have also noticed that a new supported data compression format zstd appeared some time ago. I haven't seen any backends that use it yet, but httpx will support decompression in versions above 0.28.0. I already use it to compress server response dumps in my projects; it shows incredible efficiency in asynchronous solutions with aiofiles.
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MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
Zstd is a personal project? Surely it's not by accident in the Facebook GitHub organization? And that you need to sign a contract on code.facebook.com before they'll consider merging any contributions? That seems like an odd claim, unless it used to be a personal project and Facebook took it over
(https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/CONTRIBUTING.md#co...)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing smaz and zstd you can also consider the following projects:
doboz
haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)
LZMAT - git mirror of LZMAT (http://www.matcode.com/lzmat.htm)
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
brotli - Brotli compression format