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Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x
First released with Zstandard 1.3.2 in 2017, the --long range match finder increases the compressor’s search window to at least 128MiB, improving deduplication inside large files. This optional feature had substantial performance overheads at launch, but various optimisations have since brought its performance within…
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Databases & DataSystems & Performance2025
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2025 | Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x by bede | 279 | 113 |
