Zstandard

Zstandard, or Zstd, is a general-purpose compression algorithm and file format. It is designed to have a good balance between compression ratio, compression speed, and decompression speed.

Zstandard is able to use a "dictionary" format to make compression of files of an already known type more efficient.

Identification
For at least some versions of Zstd format, files begin with signature bytes. For files created since version 0.8.0 (August 2016 ), the header is instead.

Software

 * Zstandard →,  ,

Links

 * Zstandard website
 * RFC 8478
 * Zstandard