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cb321
139 days ago
DNA researchers developed a parallel format for gzip they call "bgzip" (
https://learngenomics.dev/docs/genomic-file-formats/compress...
) that makes data seem less trapped behind a decompression perf wall. Zstd is still a bit faster (but < ~2X) and also gets better compression ratios (
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5103#32269
)