> “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is now
And it comes in relatively well, in my opinion. I'm a compression amateur, but bzip3 is the first entry I recognize as a general purpose compression program.
And it comes in relatively well, in my opinion. I'm a compression amateur, but bzip3 is the first entry I recognize as a general purpose compression program.
On my desktop, decompressing with zstd requires 128 MB and 1 s, while bzip3 uses 3.2 GB and 90 s.
Without `-b 511`, bzip3's ratio decreases and decompression requires about the same memory as zstd. But the decompression is still two orders of magnitude slower.
Might still be useful as an archival compression format even if it will be less useful for distribution.