RAD Game's New Oodle Data Compression Beats Open-Source Alternatives
There's been much interest in recent times around the open-source Google Brotli project as well as Zstd and others, but the latest work done by RAD Game Tools to their commercial and proprietary compression tech is now putting the open-source lossless compression alternatives further behind.
Former Valve developer Rich Geldreich has done some independent tests of RAD's new tech vs. open-source alternatives.
Among the comments by Rich on his personal blog, "this is the new state of the art, and open source codecs have a lot of catching up to do...
The open source world should be inspired by the amazing progress RAD has made here. If you're working on a product that needs lossless compression, RAD's Oodle product offers a massive amount of value. There's nothing else out there like it. I can't stress how big of a deal RAD's new lossless codecs are. Just their existence clearly demonstrates that there is still room for large improvements in this field."
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