Adam Borowski [20/10/2018 22.54]:

> Anything else has been obsoleted and should be deprecated:
> * gzip is venerable and had seen so much use in the past that it won't ever
> go away. But you shouldn't use it: it's speed is same as xz at level 2.5
> but compression ratio is drastically worse.
> * bzip2 is drastically slower (esp. at decompression) than xz and zstd; it
> needs to die.
> * lzop had a good run but zstd is much stronger at same speed while lz4 is
> much faster.
> * lzip is a worse alternative to xz, peddled by a couple of trolls that send
> untruthful propaganda to projects, hoping people won't do research between
> accepting its use. Just say no and use xz.
> * ncompress is completely dead by now.
> * zip is used by Windows folks only, similar to gzip.
> * rar is unfree.
> * 7z is similar but incompatible to xz; also a container rather than a pure
> compressor.

You forgot 'pack' :-)
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Hilsen Harald