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Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days, but not everyone has the software installed to unpack them
by VHRanger 4y ago
Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days, but not everyone has the software installed to unpack them
- yyyk 4y agoWe practically need libgen-crystal to use this anyway, so just link zstd to libgen-crystal and now it's available. * Also, this consideration did not prevent trying .tar.xz. I don't imagine .tar.xz is that much more available than .zstd.
- unicornporn 4y ago> not everyone has the software installed to unpack them People downloading 2 TB of compressed books in plain text format are not exactly the definition of "everyone". > Yes, there's a lot better compression available these days Tell me more!
- VHRanger 4y agozstd: https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd Or any of the ones they benchmark against in their .README (lz4, snappy, zlib, etc.)