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bzip and gzip are both horrible, terribly slow. Wherever I see "gz" or "bz" I immediately rip that nonsense out for zstd. There is such a thing as a right choic
by stefan_ 7mo ago
bzip and gzip are both horrible, terribly slow. Wherever I see "gz" or "bz" I immediately rip that nonsense out for zstd. There is such a thing as a right choice, and zstd is it every time.
- laurencerowe 7mo agolz4 can still be the right choice when decompression speed matters. It's almost twice as fast at decompression with similar compression ratios to zstd's fast setting. https://github.com/facebook/zstd?tab=readme-ov-file#benchmarks https://github.com/facebook/zstd?tab=readme-ov-file#benchmar...
- anthk 7mo agopigz it's damn fast on compressing. Also, a Vax with NetBSD can run gzip. So here is it. Go try these new fancy formats on a Vax, I dare you. And, yes, I prefer LZMA over the obsolete Bzip2 any day, but GZIP it's like the ZIP of free formats modulo packaging, which it's the job of TAR.
- kergonath 7mo ago> Wherever I see "gz" or "bz" That should not happen too often, considering that IIRC bzip lasted only a couple of months before being replaced by bzip2.