20 points | by zdw 2 days ago ago
7 comments
While not very popular, ECT [1] is (still?) the best solution in this space and has been my go-to tool for this purpose.
[1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
I use ect on a monthly basis, at least. Especially for png files. It's pretty great!
> Typically, other archives like .tar.bz2 can be smaller. But those aren’t backwards-compatible!
Is there any point for (new) .bz2 archives in the era of Zstd?
Tooling ?
It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.
LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.
No idea when how long zstd will need.
Debian? Did they discover it yet?
Nice, interesting to see if it helps docx much.
APKs need to be zipaligned, I don't see that mentioned.
While not very popular, ECT [1] is (still?) the best solution in this space and has been my go-to tool for this purpose.
[1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool
I use ect on a monthly basis, at least. Especially for png files. It's pretty great!
> Typically, other archives like .tar.bz2 can be smaller. But those aren’t backwards-compatible!
Is there any point for (new) .bz2 archives in the era of Zstd?
Tooling ?
It takes years for bzip2 be in every Linux Distro, and we _still_ doing gzip.
LZMA / xz tool are start to get more support, but they are nowhere near universal.
No idea when how long zstd will need.
Debian? Did they discover it yet?
Nice, interesting to see if it helps docx much.
APKs need to be zipaligned, I don't see that mentioned.