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by no_wizard 2148 days ago
This is a really interesting write up of their use of Brotli! Makes me wonder if there might be a novel way I could leverage it beyond HTTP Responses.

I never realized the advantages of brotli over zlib could be so extensive, in particular, it appears they're getting a huge speed boost (I think also in part that its written in Rust)

>we were able to compress a file at 3x the rate of vanilla Google Brotli using multiple cores to compress the file and then concatenating each chunk.

Side note: I admit, at first I thought they were talking the Broccoli build system[0]

[0]https://github.com/broccolijs/broccoli