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Isn't bzip notoriously slow though?
Isn't bzip notoriously slow though?
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.
bzip2 decompression is slow. It's faster than xz for compression.