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by gliptic 1365 days ago
Check out http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html . The top BWT performer is #22. What it comes down to is the way the BWT output is transformed and entropy-coded afterwards, and various other tricks.

bzip2 only does very basic MTF transformation and Huffman coding, which are not very bit efficient.