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> at the same compression time/decompression time as gzip In my experience zstd is considerably faster than gzip for compression and decompression, especially
by umvi 2y ago
> at the same compression time/decompression time as gzip
In my experience zstd is considerably faster than gzip for compression and decompression, especially considering zstd can utilize all cores.
gzip is inferior to zstd in practically every way, no contest.
- lxgr 2y agoPractically, compatibility matters too, and it's hard to beat gzip there.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoThe benefit from zstd is however so great that I even copied the zstd binary to some server I was managing but couldn't easily compile it from scratch. Seriously, bundling zstd binary is that worthy by now.
- lxgr 2y agoIf you can control both sides, definitely go for it! But in many cases, we unfortunately can't (gzip/Deflate is baked into tons of non-updateable hardware devices for example).