Data compression

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• Lossless compression

• PAQ
• Hutter Prize

• 2015 zstd developed by Yann Collet
• 2014 xz multi-threaded compression (-T0 flag)
• 2011 LZ4

• 2005-2007 xz (LZMA)

• 1996 bzip2 (BWT)
• 1992 gzip (DEFLATE)
• 1991 Winzip
• 1985 compress (LZW)
• 1984 LZW algorithm

Algorithms:

• zstandard: zstd
• BWT: bzip2, 7-Zip
• LZMA: xz
• DEFLATE: gzip
• LZW: compress

• zip -T
• gunzip -t

xz -t

• Advanced Video Coding (H.264)

Related

• XOR-based compression, Gorilla TSDB
• archive Ansible module
• tar -x

See also

• Data compression: LZMA, xz, unxz, xz -t, xz -q, xz -T0, xz -9, zstd, Igor Pavlov, bzip2, gzip

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