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For "realtime" compression, wouldn't lz4 make more sense?

Much lighter in both the server and the client.




LZ4 has quite poor compression, its advantage is speed. The difference between decompressing ten megs of data with LZ4 versus zstd is a completely negligible number when the difference in bytes sent over the wire is might approach a full megabyte.




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