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I compressed timestamps before zstd and got up to 26.5% smaller log archives

Dev.to · arhuman 1mo ago

I compressed timestamps before zstd and got up to 26.5% smaller log archives

How Metarc compresses structured timestamps before handing data to zstd.

Structure Before Bytes: How Metarc Beats tar+zstd on Real Code

Dev.to · arhuman 2mo ago

Structure Before Bytes: How Metarc Beats tar+zstd on Real Code

tar+zstd is very hard to beat. So I stopped trying to beat it as a byte compressor. Instead, I...

Trying to beat the venerable tar

Dev.to · arhuman ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Trying to beat the venerable tar

Hi, I’ve been working on a small Go project called Metarc: It's an Open Source file archiver and I’d...