[vbox-dev] New Ultra-fast compression algorithm: Zstandard; Suitable for VirtualBox ?

[Alexey Eromenko]

Just in case if someone is looking to add disk compression feature to
VirtualBox, here is a new algorithm: Zstandard. Faster than Huffman
(zip), compression rate like arithmetic.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1658392934479273/smaller-and-faster-data-compression-with-zstandard/

7-zip version with ZSTD:
https://mcmilk.de/projects/7-Zip-zstd/

BSD-licensed zstd library:
https://github.com/facebook/zstd

Best wishes,
-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"