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| author | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | 2014-10-14 13:08:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | 2014-10-14 13:08:35 +0200 |
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17dff07 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +brotli +====== + +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. |