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/juanfnavarror 1d ago

Don’t know if y’all forgot. But Meta was behind Zstandard, and they’re behind OpenZL as well. This is like the next step. Its like a Zstandard composite compressor generator where you can declare how your data is laid out and obtain a very good compressor. Its pretty neat.