Decompressing takes 4 times as long? I wonder if that is slow enough to create a bottleneck in processing. Not everyone uses compression for purely archival pur

Decompressing takes 4 times as long? I wonder if that is slow enough to create a bottleneck in processing. Not everyone uses compression for purely archival purposes. In the genomics field, most sequencing data are gzipped to save disk space. And most programs used to process the sequencing data can take in the gzipped files directly.