> “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is now

And it comes in relatively well, in my opinion. I'm a compression amateur, but bzip3 is the first entry I recognize as a general purpose compression program.

> It is now:

Matt added bzip3 to the benchmark seemingly after the last year thread. If the zstd benchmark, last update at max 22 in 2016, were to be updated for today’s zstd (for long-range if nothing else) after coming across this thread, what would be the most compact possible list of option sets to benchmark to reflect the value of LR et al.?

> “Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3

FWIW, the Burrows-Wheelers transform is also used by bzip2, so this isn’t a new feature even though that quote kinda sounds like it is.