[$] Format-specific compression with OpenZL

Date:
Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:51:21 +0000

Description:
Lossless data compression is an important tool for reducing the storage requirements of the world's ever-growing data sets. Yann Collet developed
the LZ4
algorithm and designed the Zstandard (or Zstd)
algorithm; he came to the 2025
Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo to talk about where data compression
goes from here. It turns out that we have reached a point where general-purpose algorithms are only going to provide limited improvement;
for significant increases in compression, while keeping computation costs within reason for data-center use, turning to format-specific techniques
will be needed.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053018/


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