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by lxgr 636 days ago
Practically, compatibility matters too, and it's hard to beat gzip there.
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lifthrasiir 636 days ago
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.
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lxgr 636 days ago
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).

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