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Nearly as fast to compress, but much slower to decompress. Zstd is pretty good on decompression but LZ4 is top-tier.

Zstd is often "fast enough" in decompression for most cases, though.




It's why I use LZ4 for ZRAM. Only at RAM speeds do LZ4's speeds matter.




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