FastAiZip
Local-first file compression for people and agents
What it does
FastAiZip is a local-first file compression platform for faster, more private browser-based workflows. Today it supports JPG, PNG, WebP, and GIF compression with no upload and no signup. It also supports browser-agent-friendly calls, so agents can trigger local compression directly from the page. Over time, FastAiZip will expand beyond images to support more file types like documents, slides, audio, and other common formats.
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- RTRapidgzip – Truly Parallel Gzip Decompression with 10 GB/s2023 · github.com · ▲35
I have posted a much earlier version of this over a year ago [0]. Since then a lot has changed. Obviously, the name has changed. This happened for the paper publication [1]. I have also optimized the speed, integrated ISA-L for special cases, limited the compression-ratio-dependent maximum memory consumption, and finally added parallelized CRC32 computation, which adds ~5% overhead no matter the number of cores used. At this point, I am leaning towards calling it production-ready although there are still many ideas for improvements. Redoing the benchmarks of the older Show HN, would look…
- TPThread-Parallel Decompression and Random Access to Gzip Files (Pragzip)2022 · github.com · ▲15
Hello HN, I'm very excited to have finished a gzip decoder that can speed up decompression using threads. On my Ryzen 3900X, I measured a 8x speedup over standard gzip, reaching 1.6 GB/s for a synthetic file with a consistent compression ratio of 1.3. A functional decompressor like this is kind of a first, that's why I am excited. Pragzip implements the two-staged decompression idea put forward with pugz, which unfortunately only works with gzipped text files not arbitrary files and has many more limitations. I think my main contribution over pugz might be a fast (~10 MB/s)…
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