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> So the theoretical minimum is ~1.2 MB. Zstd is only acheiving ~1.4 MB, which is nowhere near the theoretical limit. > Interestingly, 7-zip compresses the dat
by theandrewbailey 3y ago
> So the theoretical minimum is ~1.2 MB. Zstd is only acheiving ~1.4 MB, which is nowhere near the theoretical limit.
> Interestingly, 7-zip compresses the data much better than zstd, reaching a size of 1,298,590 B.
This isn't surprising to me. Zstd is designed for real time compression at I/O speeds (~1 GB/s), so it probably would leave some entropy in exchange for speed, but LZMA (7zip default) is designed for good compression ratios.