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10 years ago we look at replacing gzip archives with bzip. It was just too slow for the incremental space saving gains offered. Creating bzip archives took fo
by jgalt212 7mo ago
10 years ago we look at replacing gzip archives with bzip. It was just too slow for the incremental space saving gains offered. Creating bzip archives took forever. I know xz is "better", but we still just gzip everywhere.
- Sesse__ 7mo agoxz is generally slower-but-more-dense; it's not meant to be a full gzip replacement. Zstd, on the other hand, aims to be a “better gzip”, in that it's compresses about as fast as gzip but packs somewhat denser (and decompresses faster).