Sure. I’m saying I tested it against bz2, looked up some rough details of how it works, and got a sense of what the strengths and weaknesses are, and you are wrong that it is simply “the best.” I actually do think it’s plausibly “the best” for applications where speed of compression is paramount and you still need decent compression, which is probably a lot of them. Having learned that, I’ve completed what I wanted to get out of this conversation.
He’s right, zstd is incredibly popular, quite widely used and also generally believed to be the best compression algorithm overall.
Sure. I’m saying I tested it against bz2, looked up some rough details of how it works, and got a sense of what the strengths and weaknesses are, and you are wrong that it is simply “the best.” I actually do think it’s plausibly “the best” for applications where speed of compression is paramount and you still need decent compression, which is probably a lot of them. Having learned that, I’ve completed what I wanted to get out of this conversation.