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vitus on Sept 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Burrows–Wheeler Transform

bzip's compression ratio is hard to match without spending significantly more compute.

GordonS on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

Isn't bzip notoriously slow though?

vitus on Sept 24, 2022 | | [–]

Next to lz or zstd, sure, when you don't care about compression ratio.

But bzip2 -1 offers comparable compression to zstd -10, and bzip2 -9 is more like zstd -18 which is appreciably slower.

aidenn0 on Sept 24, 2022 | | [–]

bzip2 decompression is slow. It's faster than xz for compression.

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