> These objects are also compressed to save space, so writing to and reading from .git/objects/ will always involve running a compression algoritm. Git uses zlib to compress objects, but looking at competitors, zstd seemed more promising:
That's a weird thing to put so close to the start. Compression is about the least interesting aspect of Git's design.
That's a weird thing to put so close to the start. Compression is about the least interesting aspect of Git's design.