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by forgotpwd16 1507 days ago
>better, faster

If I'm reading the benchmarks correctly, it gets higher compression but is slower and has higher memory usage. Thus cannot call it better.

>spiritual successor to BZip2

What does that mean? If it isn't related to bzip2, why choose this name?

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It is related to bzip2 in the sense of using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.