Zup - A lossy compression algorithm for text files.

Description

Needing to save some hard drive space? That XML dump of your database too large to send to a colleague? Zup's revolutionary algorithm has an adjustable compress level that fits your needs, and can achieve unsurpassed performance. Compression and decompression only takes O(n) and requires no overhead or special libraries, only a psuedo random generator to determine which characters are necessary The infamous "works on my machine" will always be a valid excuse.

Tech Stack

Various Implementations

Current Team Size

Ranter

BobbyTables

4869

Comments

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cabbybaby

1805

6y

Not gonna use it if it doesn't have a Weissman score of 5.2
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EpicofGilgamesh

1705

6y

@cabbybaby 😄
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donuts

23240

6y

Why not just zip or tar the file? There's already commands like zgrep
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12bitfloat

10817

6y

@billgates Because zip and tar are lossless, how boring is that
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electrineer

27713

6y

I often lossy compr in message
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donuts

23240

6y

@12bitfloat oh ok.... But that's like generating a hash? or just corrupting the data?

<El>hi</El> becomes <El>h</> the data is sorta useless and invalid?
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electrineer

27713

6y

@billgates you can often achieve the same effect with fever and shorter words
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BobbyTables

4869

6y

@billgates Yes that's the joke. Lossy text compression is pointless in 99.9999% of all cases.
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donuts

23240

6y

@electrineer so like JS code obfuscation/minifier then. Not lossy though...

But point is if it's lossy then you need to make sure you don't need whatever gets lost. And well for XML... THE only thing you can lose is the info between the start, end tags if you still need it to be valid for machine parsing.

Guess depends on use case
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donuts

23240

6y

@BobbyTables I want sure since this was a collab and not tagged as a joke...
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PrivateGER

16266

6y

Proposal: Replace all input text with ZUUUUUUP.
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Root

77073

6y

I get the joke.
It’s a hilarious idea.
Build it.

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