Comment Comment by linsomniac Highlight (benchmark of Perl source code): The results follow: xz -T16 -9 -k - 2'056'645'240 bytes (c=12m09s, d=4m40s) bzip2 -9 -k - 3'441'163'911 bytes (c=17m16s, d=9m22s) bzip3 -b 256 - 1'001'957'587 bytes (c=7m10s, d=4m6s? Unclear on source page) bzip3 -b 511 - 546'456'978 bytes (c=7m08s, d=4m6s? Unclear) zstd -T12 -16 - 3'076'143'660 bytes (c=6m32s, d=3m51s) edit: Adding times and compression levels parent linsomniac 1 year ago