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I've been completely impressed with zStandard. I tested it when 1.0 was released, and I was blown away by both its performance and compression ratio, especially

I've been completely impressed with zStandard. I tested it when 1.0 was released, and I was blown away by both its performance and compression ratio, especially on multi-core machines. I'm using it in a project at work (prototype stage at the moment) and I'm confident we'll ship with zStandard as the default compression method. FWIW, I'm using this Go library: https://github.com/DataDog/zstd https://github.com/DataDog/zstd I've made some contributions and the DataDog team is very prompt at reviewing merge requests.

beagle3 10y ago
Did the legal team at your work review the patent issues? (see top-level comment by rdtsc above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814476 ?) edit: time -> team, thanks JoshTriplett, DYAC.
- jdcarter 10y ago
  We're aware of the potential license issues, but not concerned they'll be a problem (for now). Also, in my system all compressed data is marked with its compression type, so it's possible for me to later find zStandard-compressed data and recompress with a different algorithm if needed. It would be a lengthy process, but at least possible.
- JoshTriplett 10y ago
  > Did the legal time at your work review the patent issues? (assuming you mean "legal team", not "legal time") If it did, they almost certainly couldn't say.