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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social 46 min. ago

Aqueous, a New Archiver, Undoes JPEG, PNG and ZIP Compression, Squeezes Harder, Then Rebuilds Every Original Bit for Bit With WebAssembly

https://lockergnome.com/aqueous-archive-wasm-recompression-jpeg-png-zip-bit-exact/

#compression #webassembly #storage #OpenSource #ai

Chris unpacks a stack of nested boxes and presses their contents into one small cube

Aqueous, a New Archiver, Undoes JPEG, PNG and ZIP Compression, Squeezes Harder, Then Rebuilds Every Original Bit for Bit With WebAssembly

The open-source aqr tool unpacks files that were already compressed by weaker encoders, recompresses their contents with stronger models, and ships the WebAssembly decoders inside the archive; on a 10 GB benchmark it came in at 2.63 GB against tar plus zstd's 4.68 GB.

#storage #compression #webassembly #opensource #ai

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