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Somewhat interestingly, this would do pretty well, as the semi-fictional [1] Weissman score takes into account both compression speed and ratio.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/soft...

P.S. Yes, semi-fictional is a perfectly cromulent description of this metric.


Do we really need to have this comment for any submission that mentions compression?


The Weissman score comment's Weissman score would be improved by merely linking to an earlier instance of the Weissman score comment.


I guess so. It is also the top comment on r/programming for this (link also contains the corresponding blog entry of the author): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_...


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Why so serious?




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