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Here is another with lz4, lzo as well as lzma1, although they're not very relevant for the tarball test. Gzip -9 is on par with bzip2 -1 while almost twice as f

• acdha 13y ago
  -1 is an edge-case: if you're memory constrained, bzip2 isn't a good fit. Otherwise, you pay the extremely low percentage increase in CPU time to use -9 where bz2 will massively outperform gzip on most workloads.