[TulliusCicero]

> I don't see a single mention of CPU time

> Looking once again at MESSAGE_CREATE, the compression time per byte of data is significantly lower for zstandard streaming than zlib, with zlib taking around 100 microseconds per byte and zstandard taking 45 microseconds.

[lilyball]

That's compression time, the parent is talking about the end user so we want decompression time instead.

[monocasa]

Zstd is generally known for markedly faster decompression (as well as compression) than zlib.

https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-...

[dgfitz]

I imagine it correlates with the end-user device specs, no?