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XZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbanned(github.com)

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PlexSheep@infosec.pub
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Zstd and xz fullfil different needs. Xz take more time to compress and is faster to decompress as far as I know.

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XZ is a slog to compress and decompress but compresses a bit smaller than zstd.

zstd is quite quick to compress, very quick to decompress, scales to many cores (vanilla xz is single-core only) and scales a lot further in the quicker end of the compression speed <-> file size trade-off spectrum while using the same format.

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