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Storage is so cheap nowadays that usability and compression speed are more important for most people.
by otterley 4y ago
Storage is so cheap nowadays that usability and compression speed are more important for most people.
- usefulcat 4y agoFor a given compression ratio, zstd compression is faster than gzip by a good margin (even without using multiple threads). And zstd decompression is pretty much always faster than gzip too.
- jrockway 4y agoHere is a nice page for mapping "what first came to mind" to "what's actually fastest in 2021": https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ TL;DR, lz4 is 10x faster than gzip (though does not produce as small as a file), zstd is twice as fast and better.