alt Hacker News10 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.
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.
xz is generally slower-but-more-dense; it's not meant to be a full gzip replacement. Zstd, on the other hand, aims to be a “better gzip”, in that it's compresses about as fast as gzip but packs somewhat denser (and decompresses faster).