zlib

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A widely used compression library implementing DEFLATE-based compression.

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5Simon Willison·8/9/2026research
SQLite prototype for compressed text revision history
Simon Willison describes an experiment for storing full text revision histories in SQLite as a compressed JSON array of prior versions. A prototype using Zstandard reportedly reduced 20.4 MB of simulated revision text to 80.3 KB, with a suggested optimization of splitting history into smaller chunks to avoid repeated full recompression.