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xxstoday at 9:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Windows users should use 7-Zip

Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store.

> Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives

winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0]

In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it.

[0]: https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5...


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tnelsond4today at 10:20 AM

Yeah, zstd is awesome. I built a webapp that uses it via wasm and the decompression speed is incredible, so much so that I store everything in zstd and decompress it on the app load. My wasm binary also does advanced search and tag insertion and stuff in addition to zstd but it's only 38kb. I wish zstd was supported natively by web browsers. The 8kb implementation of zstd is only half as slow as wasm, so even that is still viable.

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aleph_minus_onetoday at 9:35 AM

> Everyone should be using zstd

Why?

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