Hi,
I see that the documentation states:
Brotli incurs more performance overhead than Gzip, which is why it's not enabled by default.
But looking at most files on https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ (e.g. plrabn12.txt on s-desktop), that doesn’t seem to be the case at what polka states to be their default settings (6 for both, although Brotli’s documentation says the default is 11). Alternatively, https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench finds that on their corpus, brotli -q 4 compresses faster than gzip -6 and still denser than gzip -9. Is it perhaps the case that Brotli was disabled in polka based on its speed at -q 11 being mistaken for its speed at -q 6?
(Disclaimer: I happen to work at Google on the team that originated Brotli before I joined, but I am writing this in my personal capacity. Working with them just happens to have sensitised me to the popular misconception that Brotli is inherently slow.)
Hi,
I see that the documentation states:
But looking at most files on https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/ (e.g.
plrabn12.txtons-desktop), that doesn’t seem to be the case at what polka states to be their default settings (6 for both, although Brotli’s documentation says the default is 11). Alternatively, https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench finds that on their corpus,brotli -q 4compresses faster thangzip -6and still denser thangzip -9. Is it perhaps the case that Brotli was disabled in polka based on its speed at-q 11being mistaken for its speed at-q 6?(Disclaimer: I happen to work at Google on the team that originated Brotli before I joined, but I am writing this in my personal capacity. Working with them just happens to have sensitised me to the popular misconception that Brotli is inherently slow.)