Snappy Compression Library
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The Snappy compression library, developed by Google, is being shared with the community, with users appreciating its performance and simplicity.
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ii41Author
3 months ago
1 replyTrades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.
lern_too_spel
3 months ago
Snappy is really old, open sourced in 2011. It is strictly worse than LZ4, which achieves a better compression ratio at better speed and vastly better decompression speed.
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