e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

  • @seaQueue@lemmy.world
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    122 years ago

    .tar.zstd all the way IMO. I’ve almost entirely switched to archiving with zstd, it’s a fantastic format.

      • raubarno
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        112 years ago

        Gzip is slower and outputs larger compression ratio. Zstandard, on the other hand, is terribly faster than any of the existing standards in means of compression speed, this is its killer feature. Also, it provides a bit better compression ratio than gzip citation_needed.

        • Yes, all compression levels of gzip have some zstd compression level that is both faster and better in compression ratio.

          Additionally, the highest compression levels of zstd are comparable in compression level to LZMA while also being slightly faster in compression and many many times faster in decompression

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        gzip is very slow compared to zstd for similar levels of compression.

        The zstd algorithm is a project by the same author as lz4. lz4 was designed for decompression speed, zstd was designed to balance resource utilization, speed and compression ratio and it does a fantastic job of it.