A very important aspect of this project is the zlibWrapper. It provides a interface for transparently reading from zstd-compressed, zlib-compressed, or uncompre

A very important aspect of this project is the zlibWrapper. It provides a interface for transparently reading from zstd-compressed, zlib-compressed, or uncompressed files with one API. It's quite fast, provides an excellent balance between speed and compression ratio, and is generally my preferred way to work with compressed data. Their emphasis on branchless coding is even more valuable now than it was when zstd was released, since we are living in a post-spectre/meltdown world. I dislike Facebook as a company, but I cannot find fault with their engineering. [Edit/Off-topic: I want someone to make an LZ77/DEFLATE/Led Zeppelin pun-based product sometime. Please. That joke has been begging to be made since at least 1990.]