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zinodaurtoday at 4:17 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm pretty new to choosing compression libraries - I started with zlib and was delighted at how much faster and smaller zstd made things.

Since we kind of need a default "Need to compress something? Use this!" setting - would you prefer zlib over zstd, or something else for that role?


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handsome_jack_today at 6:35 PM

zstd or lz4