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You may have mistaken Brotli (whose file format has no magic number and prevents an easy identification) with Zstandard (whose file format does have defined mag
by lifthrasiir 5y ago
You may have mistaken Brotli (whose file format has no magic number and prevents an easy identification) with Zstandard (whose file format does have defined magic numbers 28 B5 2F FD or [50-5F] 2A 4D 18).
- jeffbee 5y agoNo I'm not confused, it's just that the Zstd magic number has had 8 different values over the years, so I'm just wondering if we're past that yet.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoAh sure. The wire format has been fixed since 0.8.0 (2016-08), so you must have seen a very early phase of development (which took one full year).