[umvi]

> at the same compression time/decompression time as gzip

In my experience zstd is considerably faster than gzip for compression and decompression, especially considering zstd can utilize all cores.

gzip is inferior to zstd in practically every way, no contest.

[lxgr]

Practically, compatibility matters too, and it's hard to beat gzip there.

[lifthrasiir]

The benefit from zstd is however so great that I even copied the zstd binary to some server I was managing but couldn't easily compile it from scratch. Seriously, bundling zstd binary is that worthy by now.

[lxgr]

If you can control both sides, definitely go for it!

But in many cases, we unfortunately can't (gzip/Deflate is baked into tons of non-updateable hardware devices for example).