• [$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Thu Jan 15 06:40:08 2026
    Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed
    the LZ4
    algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd)
    algorithm; he came to the 2025
    Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo to talk about where data compression
    goes from here. It turns out that we have reached a point where general-purpose algorithms are only going to provide limited improvement;
    for significant increases in compression, while keeping computation costs within reason for data-center use, turning to format-specific techniques
    will be needed.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1053018/
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