Hi! On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 20:23:15 +0000, Nick Terrell wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Guillem Jover wrote: > [...] > > * Format stability: Although it's supposedly frozen now, it has > > changed quite often in recent times. AFAIR it was also mentioned at > > least in the past that the target was mainly real-time data streaming, > > so long-term data storage might not be a priority? Would need > > clarification from upstream I guess. > > I'm one of the upstream maintainers of zstd. If you have any questions, > please feel free to either open an issue on the issue board [1] or email > me or Yann Collet (CCed).
Perfect, thanks for reaching out! > The format has been stable since version 0.8.1, which was released on > August 18th 2016. We have an RFC draft describing the compression > format in progress [2], so we are completely committed to keeping the > format stable. > > Long-term data storage is as much a priority for us as real-time data > streaming. IMO one of the strengths of Zstandard is the ability to maintain > the same fast decompression speed at every compression level. That > allows both real-time streaming and long-term storage to use the same > format. Thanks for the clarification! Regards, Guillem
