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▲ALP: Adaptive lossless floating-point compression (github.com)
34 points by fanf2 8 days ago | 4 comments
zX41ZdbW 4 days ago [-]
ALP has been successfully integrated into ClickHouse: https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2026-release-26.3/, though the range of scenarios when it is reasonable to choose ALP over general-purpose compression is not so large.
pohl 4 days ago [-]
I’m curious what domains might use something like this. (I haven’t found a need, yet)
hanz_gruber 4 days ago [-]
is it middle out?
throwup238 4 days ago [-]
It’s mantissa out.
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