#compression

Short answer: resize classroom promo images to the display size before compressing them, then cache...

Short version: gzip has no fixed point. Compress an already-compressed file and every pass makes it a...

Compress on ingest, but only the PDFs that no longer have to prove anything. Use the presence of a...

Decompression turned out to be the fast part. That was the surprise in this one. We assumed inflate...

gz, zst, xz, lz4, br, lzma and bz2, timed for size, compression and search with ripgrep. bz2 gets as small as xz and is 14× slower to search.

Nathan Barry's gzip experiment uses compressed length to rank continuations, making a real information-theory connection visible while also showing why local byte copying is not language understanding.

When compressed product images look blurry, the quality setting is only half the diagnosis. A...

When you need LZ4 compression in Dart, you have options. But not all LZ4 implementations are equal —...

Defending Against Decompression Bombs in Dart A decompression bomb is a small compressed...

You already set a megabyte cap and the clip is still too big—or too slow to finish in a browser...

Short answer: compress the monthly game report as it enters the archive, keep both byte counts, and...

The same 979 MB log in seven formats, searched with zgrep, ugrep, ripgrep and uvf/uvp. On par the first time; the second search is 0.11–0.12 s in every format.