Introduction and index of this series is here. In the previous part I looked at generic lossless data compressors (zlib, lz4, zstd, brotli), and was thinking of writing about data filtering next. But then, libdeflate and Oodle entered the chat! libdeflate libdeflate is an independent implementation of zlib/deflate compression, that is heavily optimized. I’ve seen it before (EXR blog post), and indeed it is very impressive, considering it produces completely zlib-compatible data, but much fa...
