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Research in compression hardly ever stalled, it just wasn't getting much publicity because it wasn't coming from Google. For example, looking at Brotli it appea
by huhtenberg 11y ago
Research in compression hardly ever stalled, it just wasn't getting much publicity because it wasn't coming from Google. For example, looking at Brotli it appears to be based on ideas very similar to those explored by the PAQ project [1] not several years ago.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ
- tmd83 11y agoOhh I know there has been a lot of work, exotic codecs for a long while. I'm not an expert but I have looked up whats out there fairly often. What I'm saying that most of them had been too slow or specialised to be used by most people. But in recent times those exotic codecs has been transformed, tuned to make a lot of practical codecs.
- acdha 11y agoThe web has definitely had a problem with legacy restrictions driving thinking. We lost nearly a decade with Internet Explorer stagnation and I think that caused a lot of people to assume that the odds of something new going mainstream were too low. Now we're in a very different place where people upgrade software much faster than in the past and that's likely to start showing up in projects like this where it's actually plausible to think of something like Brotli seeing widespread usage within 1-2 years.
- aidenn0 11y agoOn top of that Google can unilaterally upgrade the servers that serve the most popular site on the internet and ~40% of all browsers at the same time.