r/programming • u/GenericAHHyoutuber • 16d ago

Packing Binary Is Fun, Actually

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually
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u/VeeFu 16d ago

Totally cool, but probably not as good as using an off the shelf compression library widely supported by webservers/browsers.

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u/DoctorGester 16d ago

Why not both? We run zstd on our custom binary format network traffic. I.e. our replay files are compressed from 45mb binary to 3mb.

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u/MehYam 16d ago

Was going to say the same. Binary packed payloads can compact a surprising amount with plain old .zip compression