> For gzip in particular, this sliding window has a fixed size of 32KB.
I'm surprised people keep reaching for gzip for this sort of comparison. LZ4 / zstd compress better at the same compression speed, and zstd and brotli compresses much better. Brotli is also supported in all modern browsers.
There's basically no reason to use gzip in new software. (With the exception of compressing for the web - at least until zstd makes it into browsers.)
In this case, op explicitly compiled javascript for use in web browsers, so in my opinion reaching for gzip is not so strange. There is no browser support yet except behind feature flags in Chrome, and in curl, but that's not a browser. Also, zstd was explicitly designed to compress as good as deflate but much faster. You can also use zstd to compress 'better' but that costs some CPU time again but that is mostly a different use case
Brotli is a much better choice for compressing JavaScript for the web. It’s supported by every browser (and curl I think), and the compression ratio is way better. The only downside is that you probably want to compress once instead of on every request, because brotli compression is slow. Easy enough to set up though.
I'm surprised people keep reaching for gzip for this sort of comparison. LZ4 / zstd compress better at the same compression speed, and zstd and brotli compresses much better. Brotli is also supported in all modern browsers.
There's basically no reason to use gzip in new software. (With the exception of compressing for the web - at least until zstd makes it into browsers.)