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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by idoubtit on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:17PM (#42900623)
I've reached the same conclusion, and I've been using zstd unless I want extremely fast (de)compression with lz4.

And even when I still have to use gzip (the format), the executables of libdeflate are fully compatible and noticeably faster than gzip/gunzip (the tool).

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by jrockway on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:31PM (#42901363)
This was on HN a while ago https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/ and reaches the same conclusion. I am inclined to use Zstd even in cases where people would use lz4. Zstd is very fast.
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