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miohtama on Oct 4, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Postgres WASM

Why is Brotli more efficient on Wasm files? I believe their built-in dictionary was tuned for HTML, CSS and JS content.

robryk on Oct 4, 2022 | [–]

I'd guess that the context model (based on last 1-2 bytes) can be used to separate opcodes and their parameters.

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