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When does it make sense to use lzop (or the similar but more widely recommended LZ4) for static storage? My impression was that it was a compressor for when you
by mananaysiempre 4y ago
When does it make sense to use lzop (or the similar but more widely recommended LZ4) for static storage? My impression was that it was a compressor for when you want to put less bytes onto the transmission / storage medium at negligible CPU cost (in both directions) because your performance is limited by that medium (fast network RPC, blobs in databases), not because you want to take up as little space as possible on your backup drive. And it does indeed lose badly in compression ratio even to zlib on default settings (gzip -6), let alone Zstandard or LZMA.