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The rest of the sane world will continue to use gzip because the marginal compression savings is not worth the compatibility issues. I have lost count of the nu
by assttoasstmgr 4y ago
The rest of the sane world will continue to use gzip because the marginal compression savings is not worth the compatibility issues. I have lost count of the number of times I have urgently needed to extract an xz archive on a system only to find out xz isn't available. Most notably Solaris and embedded systems.
- kouteiheika 4y ago> The rest of the sane world will continue to use gzip because the marginal compression savings is not worth the compatibility issues. It is definitely worth it to use a modern compression format. I regularly take backups of one service I run. Originally I used gzip, and then on someone's recommendation I tried zstd. Here are the results: gzip compression time: 204s zstd compression time: 19.1s gzip decompression time: 28.2s zstd decompression time: 6.4s gzip compressed size: 3.0GB zstd compressed size: 1.7GB I ain't ever going back to gzip, especially when it wastes so much disk space and CPU cycles. > sane world [..] Solaris ...I think we're living in a different world. (: