alt Hacker NewsBzip is slower than zstd and doesn’t compress as well as xz. There’s no place for it.
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jgalt212 • today at 12:30 PM
10 years ago we look at replacing gzip archives with bzip. It was just too slow for the incremental space saving gains offered. Creating bzip archives took forever. I know xz is "better", but we still just gzip everywhere.
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int_19h • today at 3:49 AM
Article has the numbers for their input:
uncompressed: 327005
(gzip) zopfli --i100: 75882
zstd -22 --long --ultra: 69018
xz -9: 67940
brotli -Z: 67859
lzip -9: 67651
bzip2 -9: 63727
bzip3: 61067
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You can pry bzip from my dead cold hands.