alt Hacker NewsI also wonder how brotli/lzma would compare here.
Far better, just like anything else based on arithmetic coding. The main distinction here is that the output can still be decompressed with a standard Inflate implementation.
I also wonder how brotli/lzma would compare here.
Far better, just like anything else based on arithmetic coding. The main distinction here is that the output can still be decompressed with a standard Inflate implementation.
Except that brotli uses Huffman coding. It's main claim to fame is using higher order statistics to select a Huffman table and its built-in dictionary.
This class of compression programs sees larger differences due to the way the data is modelled instead of the specific entropy coder used.