Zstandard Compression Comparisons
Discussions center on recommending Zstandard (zstd) over alternatives like gzip, zlib, lz4, xz, and bzip2, highlighting its superior speed in compression and especially decompression while maintaining good ratios.
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Try ZDtandard. You can spend as tune compression speed vs. compression ratio. Decompressing is always fast.It was recently released: https://github.com/facebook/zstd
Please consider zstd instead. It is superior in every way except memory usage and compatibility with old systems.
How does it compare with zstandard these days?
Have you tried zstd, now widely supported?
What benefit do I have with using zstd over the rest? Is there any?
Zstd is generally known for markedly faster decompression (as well as compression) than zlib.https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2017/03/07/better-compression-...
Depending on your needs, consider trying out lz4!vs gzip, we found that lz4 decompresses 5x as quickly while maintaining comparable compression ratios and times.
I wonder why no one mentioned Zstandard yet. It is 10x faster to decompress than most other formats and offers comparable compression ratios.
Facebook's ZStandard compression library appears to be both faster and better at compressing than zlib. Is there any reason to continue using zlib for new projects that don't need backward compatibility?
So, zstd is gzip replacement? lower compression ratio than bzip2 and much much faster. Also better in both compression and speed than gzip