[Someone]

So, what’s the effect on memory usage?

And for decompression, the effect on memory usage and timings?

[lifthrasiir]

For decompression, nothing changes because DEFLATE is asymmetric; compressor can spend however much time to optimize the compressed stream independently from decompressor.

[masklinn]

Deflate also has a fixed 32K window so even with indexes and parallelism there’s only so much you can blow up memory use.