R. L. Dane :Debian:<p>I love playing around with <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p><p>In this case, it's all text-based data in csv and xml formats.</p><p>Size:</p><pre><code>32,696,320 202411.tar 4,384,020 202411.tar.bz2 4,015,912 202411.tar.zst 3,878,583 202411.tar.bz3 3,730,416 202411.tar.xz </code></pre><p><code>zstd</code> was invoked using <code>zstd --ultra -22</code><br><code>xz</code> was invoked using <code>xz -9e</code><br><code>bzip2</code> was invoked using <code>bzip2 -9</code><br><code>bzip3</code> has no compression level options</p><p>Speed:</p><pre><code>zstd 54.31user 0.25system 0:54.60elapsed 99%CPU xz 53.80user 0.06system 0:53.93elapsed 99%CPU bzip2 5.33user 0.01system 0:05.35elapsed 99%CPU bzip3 3.98user 0.02system 0:04.01elapsed 99%CPU </code></pre><p>Maximum memory usage (RSS):</p><pre><code>zstd 706,312 xz 300,480 bzip3 75,996 bzip2 7,680 </code></pre><p><em>*RSS sampled up to ten times per second during execution of the commands in question</em></p><p><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/bzip3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bzip3</span></a> is freaking amazing, yo.</p><p><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/datacompression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataCompression</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/bzip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bzip</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/bz3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bz3</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/zstd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zstd</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/zst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zst</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/zstandard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zstandard</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/xz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xz</span></a> <a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/lzma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lzma</span></a><br><a href="https://alpha.polymaths.social/tags/couldabeenablost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CouldaBeenABlost</span></a> ;)</p>