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		JoshTriplett 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Def... The only metric deflate leads on is widespread support. By any other metric, it has been superseded.

atiedebee 6 months ago [–]

I'd assume memory usage as well, because it has a tiny context window compared to zstd

JoshTriplett 6 months ago | [–]

You can change the context window of zstd if you want. But yes, the default context window size for zstd is 8MB, versus 32k.

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