> benchmarks don't compare to zstd. wget http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/calgary.tar.gz zcat calgary.tar.gz|time zstd -19|wc -c 902963 (=902.9K

> benchmarks don't compare to zstd. wget http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/calgary.tar.gz zcat calgary.tar.gz|time zstd -19|wc -c 902963 (=902.9KB, vs. 807.9KB for bzip3) > "Better than bzip2" isn't exactly a convincing sales pitch Sure, but nobody is pitching that. TFA does comapre to lzma (~xz), and claims bzip3 outperforms it quite handsomely in speed, while being competitive in compression ratio.