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> Some inventing custom compression codecs. I'm probably not being cynical enough here, but this doesn't necessarily imply a desire for obfuscation.
by michaelmior 3y ago
> Some inventing custom compression codecs.
I'm probably not being cynical enough here, but this doesn't necessarily imply a desire for obfuscation.
- strangattractor 3y agoYou are not being cynical enough - "Vendor lock in" would be a more appropriate term;)
- eternityforest 3y agoA custom codec seems like it could only be obfuscation or really, really bad design. Codecs are hard, I doubt there are many which are better than the well known ones.
- michaelmior 3y agoWhen you're dealing with a specific subdomain, it's certainly possible you can exploit known properties of data in that domain to achieve better compression than a general purpose algorithm. That said, it's certainly worthwhile benchmarking (de)compression speed and the compression ratio to see if the difference is actually meaningful enough to be worthwhile.