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valarauca1 on April 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deploying Brotli for static content

For large files >1GiB a library + archive is often smaller then the archive on its own.

terrelln on April 8, 2017 [–]

How are you compressing the data?

I would expect a dictionary to be useful if the data is broken into chunks, and each chunk is compressed individually.

If the data is compressed as one frame, I would be very interested in an example where the dictionary helps.

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