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It would be good to see some comparison with bzip2, which typically has better compression ratio than gzip.

• wmf 14y ago
  FYI, bzip2 has been obsoleted by xz which is both faster and gives better compression. But as others have said, Google doesn't care because browsers do gzip.
  • pjscott 14y ago
    In the future, browsers could also do xz; they'd just need to advertise it in their Accept-Encoding header. Google could put this in Chrome any time they like, and nothing would break.
    • dbaupp 14y ago
      As Jach points out above, Mozilla has had a bug[1] open about it for 6 years. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366559
    • newman314 14y ago
      There's also sdch.
  • rorrr 14y ago
    xz is essentially LZMA2. It definitely beats bzip2: http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...
  • lern_too_spel 14y ago
    Importantly, gzip is twice as fast as xz at decompression.