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It isn't a static dictionary; it just has a (large) initial value, unlike gzip.

Brotli is a great compressor, especially at levels 2-5. Unfortunately, the Google paper on Brotli runs tests at levels 1 and 11. I don't get that at all when their stated goal was to replace gzip.




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