···22222323### Compression-oriented
24242525-STAR-lite files shine when compressed: almost 2x smaller than CARs for the same compression settings; almost 6x smaller than raw CARs with zstd.
2626-2727-CAR vs STAR-lite for various compression configs:
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2525+STAR-lite shines when compressed: 2x smaller than CARs for the same compression settings and over 6x smaller than raw CARs with zstd-22.
30263131-CAR vs STAR-lite for identical compression settings, grouped by CAR size:
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2929+Read [more about compression][compression].
343035313632## Format
···105101- records should be encoded as [DRISL][drisl], the deterministic subset of CBOR used by atproto, though parsers are not required to interpret record bytes at all.
106102- any parse error should be treated as fatal for the entire archive.
107103108108-109109-### Compression
110110-111111-STAR-lite is intended to be externally compressed with zstd in transport or for storage.
112112-113113-TODO: include recommended zstd configs, and tables/graphs showing compression performance. should show vs CAR, and also compare gzip (maybe brotli?) to zstd settings
114114-115115-see [./compression-summary.md][compression]
116104117105## STAR-lite algorithms
118106