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[โ€“] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The former for speed with source trees or such

xz -0 is faster than gzip and has a higher compression ratio.

[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

That can't be right, all reports I have read about comparing xz with gzip tells me that xz will have better compression but at a slower speed than gzip.

Have you run a test of gzip at the same compression level with the same data?

I don't doubt that xz will be smaller, I doubt it will be quicker.