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ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression (github.com)
34 points by fanf2 7 days ago
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zX41ZdbW 3 days ago
ALP has been successfully integrated into ClickHouse: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2026-release-26.3/, though the range of scenarios when it is reasonable to choose ALP over general-purpose compression is not so large.
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pohl 3 days ago
I’m curious what domains might use something like this. (I haven’t found a need, yet)
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hanz_gruber 3 days ago
is it middle out?
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throwup238 3 days ago
It’s mantissa out.
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