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		deepsun 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller doc... Brotli compresses my files way better, but it's doing it way slower. Anyway, universal statement "zstd is better" is not valid.

xxs 12 days ago [–]

On max compression "--ultra -22", zstd is likely to be 2-4% less dense (larger) on text alike input. While taking over 2x times times to compress. Decompression is also much faster, usually over 2x.

I have not tried using a dictionary for zstd.

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