Re: Custom Lua Binary Sizes

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 1/6/2018 12:54 PM, Jonathan Goble wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 11:27 PM KHMan wrote:
>
>     Zstandard seems
>     to match or is better than LZMA. One issue is some patent
>     legalities that might run afoul of corporate lawyers. See this
>     excellent post [5].
>
>     [5]
>     https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-with-zstandard/
>
>
> No longer an issue. This was discussed at length at [1], with the 
> end result being an eventual relicensing of the project to dual 
> BSD/GPLv2 and the complete deletion of the offending PATENTS file.
>
> [1] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/335

Awesome, missed that.

A quick look at:
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/77

says a pure decompressor might be ~45KB in size. Probably smaller 
if code is tuned to a non modern superscalar CPU. Memory usage can 
be tuned. Nice. Looking forward to modified implementations... how 
long before someone here writes a pure Lua implementation? :-)

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Selangor, Malaysia