It's not about 'want to go slower' it's about 'had not heard of the new stuff'. Would have been nice for snappy to leave a note, "we had a good run, but others have picked up where we left off, go see [url, url, etc]"
On Monday, December 15, 2025 at 5:19:17 PM UTC-5 Robert Engels wrote: > > That’s not really how many systems work though. It’s not about “want to go > slower” — it’s interoperability with systems that cannot read those new > formats. > > On Dec 15, 2025, at 2:04 PM, Jason E. Aten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is pure speculation of my part, and I still use a ton of snappy, but > Klaus Post's S2 and > now the next generation MinLZ would appear to have surpassed snappy in > performance while providing a backwards compatible migration path. > > Old data snappy compressed can be read, and new data can compressed and > decompressed faster. > > So from a technical standpoint, there's not much call for snappy in new > code, unless > you deliberately want to go slower than what is now possible. That is a > rare want. > > Links: > > https://gist.github.com/klauspost/a25b66198cdbdf7b5b224f670c894ed5 > > > https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/klauspost/compress/+/master/s2 > > On Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:48 AM UTC-3 Brian Olson wrote: > >> https://github.com/golang/snappy >> >> 2025-03-07 they made a 1.0.0 release and marked the repo as archived and >> read-only. I usually think of that as *deprecated*, but maybe in this >> case it's a weird way of saying they think it's perfect and will never >> change? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/eaf9770d-f9ed-407e-9de1-87c725d239a3n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/eaf9770d-f9ed-407e-9de1-87c725d239a3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/758f8c65-a7bf-4bf5-aa03-0a85e72211dcn%40googlegroups.com.
