Zstd has multiple compression levels from 1-22 which allow to balance compressed size vs (de-)compression speed.
> Am 21.10.2024 um 16:09 schrieb Daniel Stenberg via curl-library > <curl-library@lists.haxx.se>: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > >> 2702791 7z >> 2745360 tar.xz >> 3208971 tar.bz2 >> 4157489 tar.gz >> 6560470 zip > > Minor follow-up: > > People on Mastodon mentioned zstd as another possible option. I added it to > this set and it ended up a few bytes larger than tar.xz. > > People then mentioned that zstd decompresses faster, but on my machine I > unpack the tar.xz file in 92 milliseconds. I don't think unpacking speed is a > particular concern for our use case. > > Everything combined, I see no strong reason to change the existing set of > used file formats. > > -- > > / daniel.haxx.se > | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available! > | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features > | https://curl.se/support.html > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
