Yeah, if you’ve got a need for serious speed, especially in decompression, LZ4 can’t be beat. However, Zstd recently added “negative” compression levels (i.e.,

Yeah, if you’ve got a need for serious speed, especially in decompression, LZ4 can’t be beat. However, Zstd recently added “negative” compression levels (i.e., faster than level 1). Compression is more or less comparable to LZ4 (try level -4 or -5, via `—fast 4` or `—fast 5`). Decompression speed will be somewhere between normal Zstd and LZ4. This lets you use a single format and library in an extremely wide range of situations, where previously you might have used a combination of LZMA and Zlib and LZ4.