fig (aka:[phil]) · Apr 11

gonna break these down a bit in a thread-that-should-probably-be-a-post 1. lz4 compression is bad! like, 50% worse than zstd-1 (without dictionary training) block sizes up to 128k but it's fast right? 4k blocks: ya, 35% faster 8k: no! -37% (slower!) 16k: -14% 32k: -3% 64: -1% slower 128: +4% fast

dawn ΛΔ · Apr 10

good to know i almost nailed the block sizes on hydrant with some guesstimations