RealTime Data Compression

 btrc: compile2 : the type system The type system is a simple yet powerful way to ensure that the code knows enough ab...

Writing safer C code may feel like an overwhelming goal. After all, we are told that C gives programmers plenty of opportunities to shoot ...

 Several years ago,  xxHash  was created as a companion error detector for LZ4   frame format . The initial candidate for this role was C...

 On the Zstandard website , there is a small chapter dedicated to Dictionary compression . In a nutshell, it explains that it can dramati...

 I recently realised that, while there is a specification for Zstandard , which describes in great details what is encoded where, there is...

 Note : this article was initially redacted as an answer to David Jud's comment , but it became long enough to be worth converting int...

 A library API (Application Programming Interface)  is even more important than its implementation. There are many reasons for this stat...

 and is now officially a Facebook Open Source project : https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compres...