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My compression algo explorations are like font explorations. I spend a lot of time doing research and testing, but I (almost) always end up coming back to gzip
by jgalt212 6mo ago
My compression algo explorations are like font explorations. I spend a lot of time doing research and testing, but I (almost) always end up coming back to gzip / arial.
One notable exception is that for very large files (e.g. 10GB+ mbox archives), we found 7z compressed to 39% and gzip 65%. 7z was about 10% faster as well.
- web007 6mo agozstd beats gzip on both speed and size, for every compression level. If you need compatibility then gzip (pigz) or zip (7z) or bz2 (pbzip2) are the best of worse outcomes, but for Pareto front optimal speed and size you want zstd.