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Note that while you are correct in principle (for example it will perform poorly for LZ77 best cases), Roadroller reaches a very high compression ratio when use
by lifthrasiir 5y ago
Note that while you are correct in principle (for example it will perform poorly for LZ77 best cases), Roadroller reaches a very high compression ratio when used with the typical minified JS input and DEFLATE recompressors.
I have kept an internal benchmark using some of js13kGames 2020 entries [1] and for those samples Roadroller universally beat gzip and in most cases even Brotli by a large margin (~8%) even with the embedded decoder. Of course Roadroller is much more computationally expensive though.
[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKJWpLPY9fQ2J_COffOJriWlNviv8nxtumgTmGvN-sY https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dKJWpLPY9fQ2J_COffOJ...
- recursive 5y agoThanks for the detailed reply. Your name looks familiar. I think I've seen you around some code golf hangouts somewhere on the internet.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoWas that the Anarchy Golf? :-) Otherwise I've been here and there so I might not remember all the places I've ever been.
- recursive 5y agoYes I think so. I used to be moderately active there a few years ago, although not a "regular".