For text with a lot of repetition, #bzip3 still blows my mind. 😆

rld@Intrepid:Documents$ for x in cat "gzip -9" "zstd --ultra -22" "xz -9e" "bzip2 -9" bzip3; do $x < weatherlog-2024.txt |wc -c |tr "\n" "\t"; echo "$x"; done 1735300 cat 80423 gzip -9 63275 zstd --ultra -22 53516 xz -9e 52374 bzip2 -9 40645 bzip3 rld@Intrepid:Documents$ echo 1735300/40645 |bc -l 42.69405830975519744125

#Lossless #Compression #LosslessCompression

P.S. times:

real 1.49 zstd --ultra -22 real 0.94 xz -9e real 0.23 bzip2 -9 real 0.07 gzip -9 real 0.06 bzip3 real 0.00 cat

DANG. 😂

@rl_dane I didn't know bzip3 existed, nice

@kabel42

It's super cool! :)