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Optimization Opportunity: variable brotli quality level.

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
performance

Research direction

Start by tracing the segmenter’s Brotli operations and the configured fixed quality level used during a run. Determine how each patch’s contribution to total cost can guide quality selection or size estimation, then validate that segmentation time improves without significant quality impact.

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Description

Currently the segmenter uses a configured fixed brotli quality level for all brotli operations within a run. We may be able to improve segmentation times without significantly impacting quality by using a variable brotli quality level based on the cost contribution of each patch. For patches that have have impact on total cost a higher quality level would be used, while patches with low cost impact could use a lower quality level (or even switch to estimating brotli compressed sizes).

Dominant language
C++
Stars
13
Forks
9
Avg merge
14h 50m
Merged PRs (30d)
6

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