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dafelst06/16/20251 replyview on HN

Sure, but zstd soundly beats gzip on every single metric except ubiquity, it is just straight up a better compression/decompression strategy.


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cogman1006/16/2025

It's pretty impressive how fast zstd has risen and been integrated into just about everything. It's already part of most browsers for compression. Brotli took a lot longer to get integrated even though it's better than gzip as well (but not as good as zstd).