Testing Brotli compression

What is it?

It's another compression, emphasis on use for HTTP compression.

Please note that I just wanted to test it on my Windows machine for fun, not to prove whether it's better or worse than other compression algorithms.

Source Code


Binaries for Windows: 

• from cran.r-project.org
• Someone compiled it  -- He also wrote a blog page here. 

I tested this file: sqlite3.exe (size: 488,960 bytes).

C:\bin>brotli --in sqlite3.exe --out test.br

and with 7zip:

C:\bin>7z a -t7z test.7z sqlite3.exe

And the result:

219,905 -- test.7z
238,039 -- test.br


RESOURCE

• https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/10/next-generation-server-compression-with-brotli/
• https://textslashplain.com/2015/09/10/brotli/