Google today announced that it has released its Brotli lossless compression algorithm under an open-source Apache license on GitHub. Benchmarks suggest that new algorithm outperforms its predecessor, Zopfli, which Google open-sourced in February 2013. “While Zopfli is Deflate-compatible, Brotli is a whole new data format,” Zoltan Szabadka, a software engineer on Google’s compression team, wrote […]...