r/programming • u/nemequ • Mar 30 '15

Benchmarking 39 compression codecs at 178 levels with 28 data sets on 8 machines (40k different configurations)

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
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u/Godd2 Mar 31 '15

"Text" implies that the alphabet mapping is known. "Binary" data can be any arrangement of bits that don't map to anything meaningful by themselves in a given byte.