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by JoshTriplett 1507 days ago
If you ramp up the compression level on zstd, does it get smaller than bzip3 before it gets to the point of taking more time?
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nousermane 1507 days ago
No, not even if you disregard time altogether. Compression of Calgary Corpus on a random old laptop:

             sec   KB
  gzip      0.19  1070
  zstd      0.02  1063
  zstd -19  1.47   897
  bzip2     0.35   891
  brotli    8.12   862
  xz        1.35   853
  bzip3     0.52   808
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