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minus-squarepelya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-224 hours agoBurrows–Wheeler algorithm or block-compression algorithm, the bzip2 file compression program was developed by Julian Seward. Ah yes, totally makes sense. XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov’s LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov) algorithm, by Lasse Collin, and then by the Tukaani Project. So apparently the uppercase J stands for “that guy who made a better compression algorithm than Julian”.
Burrows–Wheeler algorithm or block-compression algorithm, the bzip2 file compression program was developed by Julian Seward.
Ah yes, totally makes sense.
XZ Utils started as a Unix port of Igor Pavlov’s LZMA (Lempel–Ziv–Markov) algorithm, by Lasse Collin, and then by the Tukaani Project.
So apparently the uppercase
Jstands for “that guy who made a better compression algorithm than Julian”.