There was an Apple presentation that claimed lower decompression energy usage: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/712/?time=457 https://developer

There was an Apple presentation that claimed lower decompression energy usage: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/712/?time=457 https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/712/?time=4... On an iOS device this is a pretty hot path, since it's used to decompress the asset catalog, including some images, so most of your apps on iOS probably already use this algorithm.