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		grumpyprole on July 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format considered inadequate for long-term arch... Are you recommending zstd based on compression speed and ratio only? Because as the linked article explains, those are not the only criteria. How does zstd rate with everything else?

usr1106 on July 24, 2022 [–]

Yes, I felt that's the biggest deficiency of the article , not covering zstd.

Some comment here says that the author of the article disapproves zstd with similar arguments as for xz. Have not verified the claim.

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