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Some more benchmarks on this[0] page

Also, I actually discovered something very interesting (to me at least). At the bottom of the link mentioned below, the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why?

[0]: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/

EDIT: After a little bit of sleuthing, it looks like the author of zstd (github.com/Cyan4973) is now contributing[1] to github.com/facebook/zstd

And the page layout for lz4[2] looks the same as zstd[0]

Anyone know if Yann Collet works for/with facebook on things other than zstd?

EDIT 2: In the time it took me to google a couple things, looks like the children comments have already answered my questions.

Also, previous discussions on zstd (not that its completely relevant) -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_...

[1]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/312 [2]: http://cyan4973.github.io/lz4/

> the link attached says https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd but then redirects to https://github.com/facebook/zstd . Anyone know why?

I believe this is just GitHub's standard behavior when a repository is moved to another namespace. We recently renamed https://github.com/D-Programming-Language to https://github.com/dlang , and e.g. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd redirects in the same way.

Oh, D language is dlang now? Looks like you guys did a redesign of the website and stuff too! I hear good things about D, keep up the great work!

Thanks! To clarify, we didn't rename the language, just the GitHub organization. However, dlang.org is what we've been using as the canonical address for the website, and "dlang" is a much more searchable term than just "D". (Now, if only Google would stop auto-correcting "dlang" to "golang"...)

It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd

Upon looking further, it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now; the repo would have been thus transferred to Facebook. Author's blog [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/Cyan4973

[1] http://fastcompression.blogspot.in/

>It hasn't been long that I fetched zstd from https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd

Yep, and Google too

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=zstd

> it turns out that the author Yann Collet [0] works with Facebook now

yep https://www.facebook.com/yann.collet.73

On another note, wonder what happens when personal and professional lives can interfere. The profile of Yann Collet in the blog post is the above link and I can't help but think, why am I on faceook looking at a baby's picture on someone's profile instead of Github or at least LinkedIn? Seems like something he might want to keep private (and yes, I'm totally assuming here, I don't know his preferences)

Now, I know you can restrict the stuff you post to friends only instead of public like he did, but it is still something people(and facebook for its employees) should consider if they want their facebook profile to become their professional contact page.

Cyan4973 is hired by Facebook. He is famous author of LZ4. Likely they decided to move their sponsor project to their organization most likely for PR.

Presumably the ownership of the repo was transfered from Cyan4973, the main contributor, to facebook, and github automatically redirects.

yep, looks like it. Maybe just forgot to update the gh-pages branch.

Downvoted? Wait, I don't think I'm getting that wrong. They probably would've preferred to avoid the outdated links that this[0] proves this.

[0]:https://github.com/facebook/zstd/pull/313

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