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Dictionaries only help with really tiny files. > Typical gains range ~10% (at 64KB) to x5 better (at <1KB). https://www.manpagez.com/man/1/zstd/zstd-1.1.0.p
by vlovich123 3y ago
Dictionaries only help with really tiny files.
> Typical gains range ~10% (at 64KB) to x5 better (at <1KB).
https://www.manpagez.com/man/1/zstd/zstd-1.1.0.php https://www.manpagez.com/man/1/zstd/zstd-1.1.0.php
Files distributed by distros are unlikely to have many packages < 64kib so the advantages of a dictionary rapidly diminish on this use-case.