[not-a-llm]

not the greatest benchmark, bzip2 many times beats xz, gzip is competitive with zstd

maybe it used default compression levels, and the defaults are not "matched"

fumny because author also wrote this post:

https://www.elliotcsmith.com/how-to-avoid-picking-terrible-m...

[smitec]

I did use default settings on those tools. I'd agree it wasn't the best benchmark and certainly wouldn't hold up if the goal here was to break any records in compression. The tools and settings chosen were mostly to validate 'this ended up roughly in the same ballpark as other tools' over 'Claude burned a lot of tokens and still made a terrible compression tool'.