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		andix 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2 Shouldn't a modern compression tool, targeting a high compression rate, try to switch its compression method on the fly depending on the input data? I have no idea about compression, just a naive thought.

supertrope 7 months ago | [–]

7-Zip can apply a BCJ filter before LZMA to more effectively compress x86 binaries. https://www.7-zip.org/7z.html. Btrfs’ transparent compression feature checks if the first block compressed well; if not it gives up for the rest of the file.

kristofferR 7 months ago | [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ

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