| commit | e8d668f87309aedc4f81dd7dab2ae264602cafb4 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | Tue Oct 14 13:08:35 2014 +0200 |
| committer | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | Tue Oct 14 13:08:35 2014 +0200 |
| tree | b1f93f493d9467903fb1aaa72ae88f2251b9bf49 | |
| parent | 3f655b63de6b88e89d98df6ff3b07dc8233a74ce [diff] |
Add top-level README file. Remove brotlispec.txt and add a link to the latest internet-draft instead.
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.