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No. LZMA-based formats like xz are too slow for web transfer speeds.



Isn't LZMA decompression pretty fast? For static assets its slow compression doesn't matter.


The cost of compression isn’t nothing. A lot of Linux distros have moved off of it for packages since they heavy Zstd compression was close enough on size while saving a lot of time & CPU bandwidth.


since the* heavy Zstd compression




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