It's still orders of magnitude slower than #ZST . I haven't done testing in terms of best use cases for XZ, but a real quick test of the Debian 13 Gnome Live CD had the following results on my hardware.
CPU: Ryzen 9 8945HS
RAM: 64 GB DDR5 @ 5,600 MT/s
Storage: Western Digital Black 4 TB M.2 SSD in PCIe Gen 4x4 M.2 slot
Source: 4,102,389,760 bytes
ZST: 4,062,396,293 bytes
XZ: 4,047,963,404
ZST time taken: 2 seconds
XZ time taken: 1 minute 50 seconds
XZ saved an extra 15 MB on a 4.1 GB input.
Zhabby Update
The STO smart contract behind the Zhabby ecosystem is now public following a CertiK security audit.
π https://github.com/metaparadox-sia/sto
The audited ZST Security Token contract is open for independent review, reinforcing transparency and accountable development.
New #blog post: Unix Data Compression Shootout
https://rldane.space/unix-data-compression-shootout.html
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cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid
(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #Unix #Linux #BSD #DataCompression #gzip #bzip #bzip2 #bzip3 #zstd #zst #xz #lz4 #compression
I love playing around with #compression
In this case, it's all text-based data in csv and xml formats.
Size:
Zhabby
Zhabby STO
Marcus Adams
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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
zstd was invoked using zstd --ultra -22xz was invoked using xz -9ebzip2 was invoked using bzip2 -9bzip3 has no compression level options
Speed:
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
Maximum memory usage (RSS):
zstd 706,312
xz 300,480
bzip3 75,996
bzip2 7,680
*RSS sampled up to ten times per second during execution of the commands in question
#bzip3 is freaking amazing, yo.
#DataCompression #bzip #bz3 #zstd #zst #zstandard #xz #lzma
#CouldaBeenABlost ;)