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bzip's compression ratio is hard to match without spending significantly more compute.

• GordonS 4y ago
  Isn't bzip notoriously slow though?
  • vitus 4y ago
    Next 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 ago
    bzip2 decompression is slow. It's faster than xz for compression.