paddor

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1. 1.▲
   by paddor 3mo ago

   Zstd already follows the pareto line very closely and also decompresses pretty fast. In case you're looking for a memory-safe version in Rust that avoids the FFI penalty in hot loops, optimized to hell and back, this here is the new ki
2. 2.▲
   by paddor 6mo ago

   I agree on the memory usage of electron apps though. Been using Slack for 10 years now and it has never been slower. A freshly started Slack app on my macOS takes up nearly 1GB. It's nuts imho.
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   by paddor 6mo ago

   According to a recent CRYPTO-GRAM issue from Schneier, it's in Meta's interest to push these regulations as their product isn't an OS. Their competition (Apple/MS/Google) are OSs though.
4. 4.▲
   by paddor 3y ago

   I applaud DJB for his continued efforts.
5. 5.▲
   by paddor 7y ago

   Can I ask why ZIP? Isn’t it quite heavy on CPU at a not-that-good compression rate? I’m thinking of LZ4 or Zstandard instead.