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by lifthrasiir 1408 days ago
Zstandard doesn't accept multiple files at all, so it's an archiving format's job to convert files into byte sequences and compress them accordingly. It looks like that 7z wasn't able to deduplicate entirely or partially identical files, in the other words zstd could never know that it is compressing almost identical files over and over.