Here 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:

Here 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.