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Re:Gzip and Brotli Compression Level Estimator by truth_seeker on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:07AM (#32789555)
Few things missing:

1. Compression time

2. De-compression time

3. Memory allocation during compression

4. Memory allocation during de-compression

Re:Gzip and Brotli Compression Level Estimator by mananaysiempre on Saturday September 10, 2022 @08:36AM (#32790071)
For Gzip, memory usage during decompression is bounded statically by 32K + constant decompressor overhead; for Zstandard, it’s 128M (tunable) on non-ultra levels (mentioned in the header); I don’t know about Brotli but it probably has something in that vein as well.
Re:Gzip and Brotli Compression Level Estimator by lifthrasiir on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:36AM (#32790491)
Brotli LZ77 window is at most 16 MiB (RFC 7932, section 9.1), unless you are using the non-standard Large Window Brotli extension in which case it is virtually unlimited.