Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms – Moncef Abboud
by fagnerbrack on 4/13/2026, 5:32:33 AM
https://cefboud.com/posts/compression/
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by: georgemcbay
For anyone who already has at least a surface level understanding of compression and wants to take a deeper dive, check out Charles Bloom's blog:<p><a href="http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com</a><p>Unfortunately it has been dormant for some time but there are years worth of useful information there and he is an uncommonly good presenter of technical knowledge through the written word.
4/17/2026, 2:13:18 PM
by: gmiller123456
Probably better called "Taking a Look at Compression Utilities", not really any information on the algorithms other than the high level names of them and a short description.
4/17/2026, 1:48:36 PM
by: jgalt212
My compression algo explorations are like font explorations. I spend a lot of time doing research and testing, but I (almost) always end up coming back to gzip / arial.<p>One notable exception is that for very large files (e.g. 10GB+ mbox archives), we found 7z compressed to 39% and gzip 65%. 7z was about 10% faster as well.
4/17/2026, 1:14:03 PM