Gzip is old but still good. It’s not as good as Zstd nor cases where lz4 and ilk shine, but it’s not fair to claim its slow. Gzip is quite close to the Pareto

Gzip is old but still good. It’s not as good as Zstd nor cases where lz4 and ilk shine, but it’s not fair to claim its slow. Gzip is quite close to the Pareto frontier, meaning it is a good trade off of time and space. See the charts at http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html (And read up on the Hutter Prize!)