alt Hacker NewsIt's just the best general purpose compression algorithm, in terms of compression ratio to CPU used, for the vast majority of use cases
It's just the best general purpose compression algorithm, in terms of compression ratio to CPU used, for the vast majority of use cases
I'm not that fussed about CPU use.
https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd
By these charts, if I only need 5-10 megabytes per second of compression on a single core, LZMA2 wins significantly on ratio, and still decompresses at well over 100. If I'm doing a backup, or sending/receiving over my internet connection (which only has 2MB/s of upload), LZMA2 easily wins. If I need speed then zstd wins.