> On 21 Sep 2020, at 16:14, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:31:47 -0000 > "Omer Katz" <omer.d...@gmail.com <mailto:omer.d...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> We have many compression algorithms as standard modules, but we lack two >> important new algorithms: brotli and zstandard. >> >> Brotli is an important compression algorithm both for HTTP2 and for >> compressing/decompressing HTTP responses. >> ZStandard is another algorithm for compression that can easily beat gzip >> with a better compression ratio and less compression time. >> Both are now stable enough and are past the 1.0 mark. >> >> Let's include them in the standard library and, of course, make them >> optional at build time like the rest of our compression modules. >> What do you think? > > I would agree with ZStandard which is best-in-class currently.
> Brotli > sounds less important. Just my 2 cents, though :-) We had to add this to our product I recall is extensively by google. We packaged the code at https://github.com/google/brotli to support this. Have not heard of zstd being used on the web yet, elsewhere it pops up all the time. Barry > > In any case, each of these modules would need a maintainer willing to > ensure maintenance inside the Python standard library. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > <mailto:python-ideas-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > <https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/> > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/A7C7BKCZRKZIVGP3ILFTZDYR4VH7GYNU/ > > <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/A7C7BKCZRKZIVGP3ILFTZDYR4VH7GYNU/> > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > <http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/>
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