4 ms·Has anyone here found uses for it, perhaps for domain-specific string compression?by GordonS 4y agoHas anyone here found uses for it, perhaps for domain-specific string compression?vitus 4y agobzip's compression ratio is hard to match without spending significantly more compute.GordonS 4y agoIsn't bzip notoriously slow though?vitus 4y agoNext to lz or zstd, sure, when you don't care about compression ratio. But bzip2 -1 offers comparable compression to zstd -10, and bzip2 -9 is more like zstd -18 which is appreciably slower.aidenn0 4y agobzip2 decompression is slow. It's faster than xz for compression.