| 1 | ### Introduction
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| 3 | Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data
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| 4 | using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding
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| 5 | and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best
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| 6 | currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed
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| 7 | with deflate but offers more dense compression.
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| 9 | The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in [RFC 7932](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7932.txt).
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| 11 | Brotli is open-sourced under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file.
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| 13 | Brotli mailing list:
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| 14 | https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/brotli
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| 16 | [](https://travis-ci.org/google/brotli)
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| 18 | ### Benchmarks
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| 19 | * [Squash Compression Benchmark](https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/) / [Unstable Squash Compression Benchmark](https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/)
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| 20 | * [Large Text Compression Benchmark](http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html)
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| 21 | * [Lzturbo Benchmark](https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/home/benchmark)
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| 23 | ### Related projects
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| 24 | Independent [decoder](https://github.com/madler/brotli) implementation by Mark Adler, based entirely on format specification.
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| 26 | JavaScript port of brotli [decoder](https://github.com/devongovett/brotli.js). Could be used directly via `npm install brotli`
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