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707b78ae
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Date :
2015-04-07T16:58:07
Add the current version of the brotli specification. Add the .nroff source file and a python script to generate the .txt version (requires the nroff command).
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in the following internet draft: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli
Brotli is open-sourced under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see the LICENSE file.