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As far as I can tell, one of zstandard's main benefits is compression/decompression speed. Is the ratio still worse than xz though?
by alkh 2y ago
As far as I can tell, one of zstandard's main benefits is compression/decompression speed. Is the ratio still worse than xz though?
- AzzyHN 2y agoAt high levels (19), it gives similar ratios to xz and 7z. But you're correct that the main advantage is the comparatively fast compression and very fast decompression speeds.
- walrus01 2y agoIts default compression/decompression speed with no options passed is superior to gzip in almost every possible scenario and cpu type. It does have other options which are much more time intensive for creating an archive but which make it more competitive with bzip2, xz, lz4 and similar.