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		Agingcoder on Nov 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sapling: A new source control system with Git-comp... I think zstd is originally not a Facebook project. https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-c... I believe Yann Collet, author of lz4, eventually went on to work for Facebook and finished it there.

Agingcoder on Nov 15, 2022 [–]

https://www.wired.com/2016/08/facebook-just-proved-isnt-hool... He was hired by Facebook during the 2015 summer, but the zstd announcement is dated jan 2015.

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