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I've spent the last few months working on this codec.
It has the following characteristics:
- SOTA decompression throughput in its ratio class
- Decent ratios (comparable to LZ4 at high effort levels)
- Slow compression
Most of the gains can be attributed to reducing branches and making decompression very friendly to out-of-order cores, by using a smart format.
Results on the tarred silesia corpus on Intel x86-64 follow:
codec decode ratio encode
misa77 -0 5219 MB/s 42.64% 54.5 MB/s
misa77 -1 4274 MB/s 39.65% 51.2 MB/s
lz4 2505 MB/s 47.59% 371 MB/s
lz4hc -12 2531 MB/s 36.45% 7.31 MB/s
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The US is getting closer to observing daylight saving time year-round. On Tuesday, the House advanced the Sunshine Protection Act on a 308 to 117 vote, which would turn clocks one hour ahead permanently, as reported by CBS News. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social in May that the bill would save the "hundreds […]
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Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion. Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing. Under the proposal, Stripe and Advent would jointly own PayPal, […]
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