pigzpp: Fast, Parallel, Portable Compression for the Whole Stack · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.24153/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTpigzpp: Fast, Parallel, Portable Compression for the Whole Stack — mentioned by NostraDavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49547244urn:hackerpapers:mention:2608.24153:49547244Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:09:37 GMT<p>Speaking of pigz, I&#x27;ve run into pigzpp[1], or rather its paper: &quot;pigzpp: Fast, Parallel, Portable Compression for the Whole Stack&quot;[2]. Turns out we can squeeze quite a bit more compression performance out of DEFLATE - ~10x in certain instances, 2x as a base minimum (read the paper for details). [1]: https://github.com/thammegowda/pigzpp [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24153</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2608.24153/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DC