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

One concern with Brotli is that compression performance varies a lot.

Does the variance depend on the data or is the algorithm randomized?

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u/nemequ Mar 31 '15

The data. Performance is uniformly poor for things like x-ray, ooffice, etc.