Are we getting to the point that we want a compresslib like hashlib if we are going to be adding more compression algorithms?
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 08:44, Antoine Pitrou solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:28:19 +0000 Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have for sometime maintained the Python bindings to the LZ4 compression library[0, 1]:
I am wondering if there is interest in having these bindings move to the standard library to sit alongside the gzip, lzma etc bindings? Obviously the code would need to be modified to fit the coding guidelines etc.
Personally I would find it useful indeed. LZ4 is very attractive when (de)compression speed is a primary factor, for example when sending data over a fast network link or a fast local SSD.
Another compressor worth including is Zstandard (by the same author as LZ4). Actually, Zstandard and LZ4 cover most of the (speed / compression ratio) range quite well. Informative graphs below: https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-with-zstandard/
Regards
Antoine.
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