https://blog.assad.fr/en/tags/metacompression/Recent content in Metacompression on Arhuman's BlogHugoen-usFri, 24 Apr 2026 02:38:37 +0100https://blog.assad.fr/en/post/what_is_metacompression/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:38:37 +0100https://blog.assad.fr/en/post/what_is_metacompression/<h2 id="what-if-the-real-gain-wasnt-at-the-byte-level">What if the real gain wasn&rsquo;t at the byte level?</h2> <p>I have always been fascinated by compression algorithms — I was 15 when I &ldquo;invented&rdquo; Run Length Encoding (before learning it had been discovered more than 20 years before I was born).<br> I marveled at the visual simplicity of Huffman coding, at the cleverness of Lempel-Ziv which dynamically builds its dictionary.</p> <p>These algorithms are powerful, and it is no coincidence that they are continuously improved and combined to produce ever more powerful new algorithms: <code>Brotli</code>, <code>zstd</code>.</p>