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From:   "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: Kernel compression benchmarks
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Excerpts from Gao Xiang's message of July 1, 2020 11:50 am:
>  Anyway, I think LZMA (xz) is still useful and which is more
>  friendly to fixed-sized output compression than Zstd yet (But
>  yeah, I'm not familar with all ZSTD internals. I will dig
>  into that if I've more extra time).

Yes, I agree. If you look at the graphs, LZMA2 (xz/7zip) still produces=20
smaller results, even compared to zstd maximum settings, so definitely=20
LZMA2 should be kept, at least for now. I am only suggesting removing=20
LZMA, since it has no benefits over xz and zstd combination (bigger than=20
xz, slower than zstd).

>> - modern compressors (xz, lz4, zstd) decompress about as fast for each=20
>>   compression level, only requiring more memory
>=20
>  lz4 has fixed sliding window (dictionary, 64k), so it won't
>  require more memory among different compression level when
>  decompressing.

Yes, this is true. I tried to simplify among all compressors, but I=20
think I simplified too much. Thanks for clarifying.

Cheers,
Alex.