Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script (opens in new tab)

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41 pointsUltimateEdge1y ago5 comments

5 comments

For the usual case of DEFLATE-based formats (PNG, ZIP) and JPEG, ECT [1] is the best available tool; to my best knowledge it dominates the entire Pareto frontier in this area, beating Zopfli and ADVPNG/OUT for most cases. If this software is still being maintained, it would be a good choice to switch to ECT now.

[1] https://github.com/fhanau/Efficient-Compression-Tool

userbinator1y ago

Additionally a number of 'junk' files such as Thumb.db and .ds_store are deleted from ZIP files.

That's no longer lossless.

ttyprintk1y ago

It shouldn’t be assumed lossless at any point, but metadata-preserving. They only use the word once in the doc, with regard to PDF.

bradknowles1y ago

I’m curious to know how this compares to other compression tools like brotli, zstd, and xz.

I guess I’ll have to include it in my own benchmarking suite I’m developing.

gendelve1y ago

Nice. I could see plugging this into GenAI interfaces generated on the go

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