You're right about the aims of snappy and brotli: snappy has compression ratios worse than deflate, because it's only LZ77: there is no entropy encoding (eg. Hu

You're right about the aims of snappy and brotli: snappy has compression ratios worse than deflate, because it's only LZ77: there is no entropy encoding (eg. Huffman) afterwards. Brotli is similar to deflate in that it does LZ77 first and then compresses its output stream by an entropy code.