▲ | 77pt77 7 days ago | |||||||
BTW, something similar can be done with zlib/gzip. | ||||||||
▲ | rwmj 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
It's true, using some rather non-obvious trickery: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/develop/examples/zran.c I also wrote a tool to make a randomly modifiable gzipped disk image: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2022/12/01/creating-a-modifiable-... | ||||||||
▲ | dafelst 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Sure, but zstd soundly beats gzip on every single metric except ubiquity, it is just straight up a better compression/decompression strategy. | ||||||||
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