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Re:Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate by JoshTriplett on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:27PM (#44802155)
The only metric deflate leads on is widespread support. By any other metric, it has been superseded.
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Re:Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate by atiedebee on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:38PM (#44802306)
I'd assume memory usage as well, because it has a tiny context window compared to zstd
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Re:Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate by JoshTriplett on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:12PM (#44802822)
You can change the context window of zstd if you want. But yes, the default context window size for zstd is 8MB, versus 32k.
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