Wrapping the brotli compression algorithm?

[Douglas Bates]

Has anyone taken a look at wrapping

https://github.com/google/brotli

If not, this may be a good project to suggest for those wanting to get their feet wet in Julia programming.

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 4:47:47 PM UTC-4, Douglas Bates wrote:

Has anyone taken a look at wrapping

https://github.com/google/brotli

 What's the advantage of this over the many other choices for compression these days?  e.g. liblzma from xz-utils?

[Kristoffer Carlsson]

It has some pretty impressive benchmarks, see http://www.gstatic.com/b/brotlidocs/brotli-2015-09-22.pdf page 4 for results.