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What use case do you have in mind for packaging dictionaries with archives? There is an ongoing discussion about a jump table format that could contain dictiona
by terrelln 10y ago
What use case do you have in mind for packaging dictionaries with archives? There is an ongoing discussion about a jump table format that could contain dictionary locations [1].
[1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395 https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395
- valarauca1 10y agoFor large files >1GiB a library + archive is often smaller then the archive on its own.
- terrelln 10y agoHow are you compressing the data? I would expect a dictionary to be useful if the data is broken into chunks, and each chunk is compressed individually. If the data is compressed as one frame, I would be very interested in an example where the dictionary helps.