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I recently benchmarked it versus the ancient "DEFLATE" algorithm, as seen in the .NET Framework.
They're virtually identical in speed using typical settings.
Zstandard only has a performance advantage if using the prepared dictionaries, in which case it is genuinely faster.
If you don't go to the effort of "training" a dictionary and using it, there's zero benefit to Zstandard.
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I recently benchmarked it versus the ancient "DEFLATE" algorithm, as seen in the .NET Framework.
They're virtually identical in speed using typical settings.
Zstandard only has a performance advantage if using the prepared dictionaries, in which case it is genuinely faster.
If you don't go to the effort of "training" a dictionary and using it, there's zero benefit to Zstandard.