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   Dave W (dave@basilisk.gallery)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 05:06:39 JST Dave W

   Zstandard is pretty amazing. It's not going to win any awards for compression ratios (lzip takes that prize ime) but it's FAST.

   Really fast.

   "Compressing a tar file of Web content from 5Gb to 3.6Gb in 6.9 sec" fast.

   Even with a -9 parameter, it only takes 19.06 sec (and compresses to 3.5Gb).

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 05:06:37 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @dave It's a nice replacement for gzip. I really appreciate the --adapt flag, too.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:19:47 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @dave backticks - this may depend on instance settings and/or software. I think infosec.exchange uses glitch-soc.

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     Dave W (dave@basilisk.gallery)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:19:48 JST Dave W

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc no markdown didn't work. How did you monospace?

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:23:28 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     @dave I use zstd enough that I have a reimplementation of Python's fileinput.input that'll automatically decompress it (and gzip, and xz, and bzip2, and lz4 if the module is installed), which is pretty great.

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     Dave W (dave@basilisk.gallery)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 10:23:29 JST Dave W

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     • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

     @ryanc Yes! I should have mentioned that, it's really smart (and doesn't bloat the memory requirement).