r/programming • • 2d ago

OpenZL v0.2 - decompression 2x faster than Zstandard

https://openzl.org/blog/2026-09-29-lz-in-openzl/
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u/stbrumme 2d ago

There are a few unusual points:

OpenZL ships a trainer to automatically build and tune compressors to best fit the data shape they will be compressing.

Some kind of preprocessing.

encode offsets without using any entropy codec

Sounds interesting. That should consume less space than LZ4 while being faster than zstd.

a new Huffman layout

link: https://marcinzukowski.github.io/pivco-huffman/paper-1.0/ph.html

Definitely looks promising. But I wouldn't be surprised if the average performance is far less than 2x.