SREP filter

Created on 2024-08-02T13:54:55-05:00

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This is a filter commonly used by game repackers which allows archive-wide deduplication.

Internally called "Future-LZ," probably indicating that its considering data forward in the buffer and not just the recent compression window.

dwarFS instead breaks archives in to blocks and stores blocks sorted by similarity hashes and is quite competitive.