This draft compares lz4 vs gzip vs xz. If minimizing CPU usage is a
concern, I'd be curious to see zstd (http://zstd.net/) added to the set
of compressors being compared. I've found that zstd is often capable of
beating gzip's compression ratio while consuming much less CPU.
banburybill
commented
7 years ago
I acked this, and added Snappy.
Robert Edmonds edmonds@mycre.ws Message-ID: 20161128205758.jonqsyahp3jz7mh6@mycre.ws
This draft compares lz4 vs gzip vs xz. If minimizing CPU usage is a concern, I'd be curious to see zstd (http://zstd.net/) added to the set of compressors being compared. I've found that zstd is often capable of beating gzip's compression ratio while consuming much less CPU.