Brotli

“why it took Google almost 8 months to release a new version of a common dependency”

“passes untrusted input through a package built in C which takes over a year to make security releases when the changelog already references those”

“Security is always context dependent. For many use case it works.”

“despite the fact that it also increases the attack surface”

“Dropbox switched to it a decade ago, so it's probably quite product-ready.”

“It's slower, though. Too high a price to pay for safety it seems.”

“Brotli is much more complicated than the gzip/deflate it replaces.”

“Why the hell is a lib like brotli that processes public general internet traffic, and maintained by google, not in rust?”

“they're really not encouraging independent implementations”

“I'd love to use more brotli and zstd”

“Amazing how concise the code is!”

“Otherwise, if zstd is easy to add, IMO I would always prefer, zstd, lz4 or brotli.”

“occasionally lz4 or bz2 or brotli”

“Far better, just like anything else based on arithmetic coding.”

“pleased with brotli numbers compared to gzip”

“I found brotli a clear winner when comparing space and time”

“DEFLATE and modern algos (Zstd, Brotli) are the production standard”

“brotli at the same speed as zstd gives better results for small data”

“brotli decompression is already plenty fast”

“brotli achieves slightly better compression, at the cost of a little over half the decompression speed”

“Still, Brotli has a slight edge.”

“I have no objection to adding Brotli, but I hope they take the compatability more seriously.”

“Brotli compresses my files way better, but it's doing it way slower.”

“It seems they're using the standard dictionary, which is utterly bizzare.”

“brotli slower again but still much faster than xz”

“both brotli and zstd are pretty widely available these days and should be fairly easy to vendor”

“Brotli also ended up better than ZSTD”

“brotli is clearly better than the rest here”

“zstd is Pareto better than brotli - compresses better and faster”

“it compresses somewhat more than zstd”

“Brotli w/o a custom dictionary is a weird choice to begin with.”

“All this for brotli… on a read-many format like pdf zstd's decompression speed is a much better fit.”

“Brotli was designed for html compression so despite/while being a relatively inferior algorithm, its stock dictionary is all html/css/js-trained/optimized.”

“Brotli compression is very much recommended, specifically for bevy and font stuff, where it shines compared to zip”

“Brotli also benefits out-of-the-box in fresh compression windows with some common JSON patterns always in the Brotli static dictionary.”

“where the compression window can be used for the duration of the connection”

“Brotli decompresses 3-5x faster than LZMA2 and is within 0.6 % of the compression density”

“sometimes Brotli has a small edge when it comes to compression ratio”

“Modern browsers support brotli or zstd, which is a lot better in terms of compression.”

“Brotli can compress more because of context modeling, about 5% more without the static dictionary”