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Cyan4973/Yann also is well known for xxhash[1], which is one of the faster hashers[2] out there. Post a new hasher and people will probably ask about xxhash (ex: metrohash[3]). Guy is an absolute machine. If you search Google for 'zstd' right now, you'll find him, not Facebook, namely: https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd . Glad his work is being supported by someone now! Immensely well deserved, after so many years of helping make everyone fast. PS - I didn't know a lot of the terms you used, but the Finite State Entropy (FSE) link you provided does a good job intro'ing some of them, and the linked paper Asymmetric numeral systems: entropy coding combining speed of Huffman coding with compression rate of arithmetic coding [4] (ANS) seems interesting. [1] https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash [2] https://github.com/rurban/smhasher [3] https://ne

>It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Yep, and Google too https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd > it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now yep https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73 On another note, wonder what happens when personal and professional lives can interfere. The profile of Yann Collet in the blog post is the above link and I can't help but think, why am I on faceook looking at a baby's picture on someone's profile instead of Github or at least LinkedIn? Seems like something he might want to keep private (and yes, I'm totally assuming here, I don't know his preferences) Now, I know you can restrict the stuff you post to friends only instead of public like he did, but it is still something people(and facebook for its employees) should consider if they want t

> the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We recently renamed https://github.com/D-Programming-Language to https://github.com/dlang , and e.g. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd redirects in the same way.

It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd Upon looking further, it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now; the repo would have been thus transferred to Facebook. Author's blog [1]. [0] https://twitter.com/Cyan4973 [1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/

Some more benchmarks on this[0] page Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why? [0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/ EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks like the author of zstd (github.com/Cyan4973) is now contributing[1] to github.com/facebook/zstd And the page layout for lz4[2] looks the same as zstd[0] Anyone know if Yann Collet works for/with facebook on things other than zstd? EDIT 2: In the time it took me to google a couple things, looks like the children comments have already answered my questions. Also, previous discussions on zstd (not that its completely relevant) -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955 https:/