Gorilla is one of the few simple, efficent, _lossless_ algorithms that compress binary data. Tricks such as renormalizing floats in base-10 (which I believe Vi

Gorilla is one of the few simple, efficent, _lossless_ algorithms that compress binary data. Tricks such as renormalizing floats in base-10 (which I believe VictoriaMetrics implements) while great when they work, potentially truncates lower-order digits. Lossiness is not a decision we're willing to make for our users unilaterally. And, as Gorilla is one the default compression algorithms we employ, it needs to be one that is correct in all cases. Incidentally, we experimented with the binary equivalent of the renormalization algorithm, and it performed on-par with Gorilla in our tests.