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zstd – A Fast Data Compression Algorithm Used By Facebook

Zstandard (also known as zstd) is a free open source, fast real-time data compression program with better compression ratios, developed by Facebook. It is a lossless compression algorithm written in C (there is a re-implementation in Java) – its thus a native Linux program.

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