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I though lzfse is deflate with finite state entropy instead of huffman:

http://fastcompression.blogspot.de/2013/12/finite-state-entr...

FSE is implementation of this new ANS entropy coding, also used e.g. in lzturbo 1.2. It's surprising that even still using huffman, brotli is slowly approaching its performance:

http://encode.ru/threads/2313-Brotli?p=44970&viewfull=1#post...

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