3 ms·> They allocate a lot of memory and are very slow. Slow and takes memory to compress, uncompress, or both?by teddyh 4y ago> They allocate a lot of memory and are very slow. Slow and takes memory to compress, uncompress, or both?namibj 4y agoBoth.jimis 4y agoThey are only slow to compress. They are as fast to decompress, or even faster sometimes. Source: I tested.terrelln 4y agoYeah thats correct. I'll just point out that they use a larger window size, so they will use more memory to decompress, but will still be fast.