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