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by 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