On a project I worked on, we tried switching from gzip to brotli for on the fly compression, and it significantly increased CPU usage. That was years ago though

On a project I worked on, we tried switching from gzip to brotli for on the fly compression, and it significantly increased CPU usage. That was years ago though so it's possible things are better now, or maybe the library we used just didn't support a compression ratio as low as what we were using with gzip.