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lifthrasiirtoday at 6:44 AM1 replyview on HN

For decompression, nothing changes because DEFLATE is asymmetric; compressor can spend however much time to optimize the compressed stream independently from decompressor.


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masklinntoday at 10:01 AM

Deflate also has a fixed 32K window so even with indexes and parallelism there’s only so much you can blow up memory use.