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LZ dates back 45 years but is still high performance. I can only imagine that we've been saddled with deflate because it's computationally light. Well we have
by willis936 5y ago
LZ dates back 45 years but is still high performance. I can only imagine that we've been saddled with deflate because it's computationally light.
Well we have computation now and still enjoy using storage efficiently, so are (slowly, lazily) moving off deflate.
- user-the-name 5y ago"LZ" is a vague family of algorithms, with a massively wide spectrum of performance and efficiency. Nearly every single modern compression algorithm falls into this family, with the only remotely popular exceptions I can think of being bzip2 and PPMd.