Top "Compression" questions

The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

Why is *.tar.gz still much more common than *.tar.xz?

Whenever I see some source packages or binaries which are compressed with GZip I wonder if there are still reasons …

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how to config grunt.js to minify files separately

there are some js files in static/js/ 1. a.js 2. b.js 3. c.js how to config grunt.js to …

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Python: Reducing memory usage of dictionary

I'm trying to load a couple of files into the memory. The files have either of the following 3 formats: string …

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Hadoop, how to compress mapper output but not the reducer output

I have a map-reduce java program in which I try to only compress the mapper output but not the reducer …

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7zip Ultra LZMA2 compression

How can I convert this settings into command? Here are the results: // Manual Compression (see the image above) Compressed Size: 12,647,451 …

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PHP: How to compress images without losing visible quality (automatically)?

I'm wondering how to figure out the best compress rate (small filesize + no quality loss) automatically. At the moment I'm …

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Make tar file by Java

I want to use Java to compress a folder to a tar file (in programmatic way). I think there must …

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How to use the 7z SDK to compress and decompress a file

According to this link How do I create 7-Zip archives with .NET? , WOPR tell us how to compress a file …

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Tools to optimize (remove redundancy and merge) CSS?

I'm searching for a good CSS compress, merge and optimization tool. I have found tools that clean the CSS but …

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Free compression library for C# which supports 7zip (LZMA)

I have a program (written in C#) that reads/writes its data directly (direct file access without server) to firebird …

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