I'd argue that's actually the lowlight of the README since that is a very poor choice of benchmark. Combining a multitude of versions of the same software massi

I'd argue that's actually the lowlight of the README since that is a very poor choice of benchmark. Combining a multitude of versions of the same software massively favors an algorithm good at dealing with this kind of repetitiveness in a way that will not be seen in typical applications. The "Corpus benchmarks" further down in the README are IMHO much more practically relevant. The compression ratio of bzip3 is not significantly better, but the runtime seems quite a bit lower than lzma at least.