[Paraview-developers] New compression algorithm

[Hahn, Steven E.]

I tried adding a LZ4 compression option to vtkXMLWriter. Compared with
zlib, vtkImageData file sizes are a bit larger but writing them is a lot
(3-10x) faster. 


https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/1979


On 9/14/16, 12:45 PM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Hahn, Steven E. <hahnse at ornl.gov> wrote:
>> Would lz4 and/or zstd be worthwhile alternatives to
>>vtkZLibDataCompressor? I often turn off compression in order to speed up
>>the XML file writers.
>
>It could certainly be a good option to support.
>