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Zstandard is a fast, lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook
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and offers a wide range of speed/compression trade-off.
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It also provides high compression ratios and great compression and decompression speeds
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, combining recent compression breakthroughs like Finite State Entropy with a performance-first design.
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Zstd is the reference implementation in C
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and is backed by an extremely fast decoder.
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It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression.
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Summary
Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression . The reference library offers a very wide range of speed / compression trade-off, and is backed by an extremely fast decoder (see benchmarks below).
Zstandard - Real-time data compression algorithm
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Summary
Zstandard , commonly known by the name of its reference implementation zstd , is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Yann Collet at Facebook . Zstd is the reference implementation in C . Version 1 of this implementation was released as open-source software on 31 August 2016
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Zstandard (ZSTD) is a fast, lossless compression algorithm. It provides high compression ratios as well as great compression and decompression speeds, offering best-in-kind performance in many conventional situations.
ELI5: Zstandard - Smaller and faster data compression
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compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm.[1] Compared to more modern compression utilities such as gzip and bzip2, compress performs faster and with less memory usage, at the cost of a significantly lower compression ratio.
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In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own. The archive data sets created by tar contain various file system parameters, such as name, timestamps, ownership, file-access permissions, and directory organization. POSIX abandoned tar in favor of pax, yet tar sees continued widespread use.
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