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> Others have compressed the Linux kernel and found that bzip2's is about 15% larger than zstd's I compressed kernel 6.19.8 with zstd -19 --long and bzip3 (def
by ac29 7mo ago
> Others have compressed the Linux kernel and found that bzip2's is about 15% larger than zstd's
I compressed kernel 6.19.8 with zstd -19 --long and bzip3 (default settings). The latter compressed better and was about 8x faster.
- atiedebee 7mo agobzip3 is very different from bzip2. It is not even made by the same person and is not nearly as ubiquitous.