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		waustin 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression fr... This is such a leap forward it's hard to believe it's anything but magic.

gmuslera 3 months ago | [–]

I used to see as magic that the old original compression algorithms worked so well with generic text, without worrying about format, file type, structure or other things that could give hints of additional redundancy.

wmf 3 months ago | [–]

Compared to columnar databases this is more of an incremental improvement.

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