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		willvarfar on Jan 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Smart/lossless compression algorithm for repeating... A fun project. In real life, use snappy http://code.google.com/p/snappy/

przemoc on Jan 14, 2012 | [–]

Or LZ4. http://code.google.com/p/lz4/ http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2011/05/lz4-explained.ht...

Atm snappy seems a bit more mature, though.

yoav on Jan 11, 2012 | [–]

Fun and this works in the browser for client side compression because it's fully js. Snappy is written in C and doesn't work in the browser.

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