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[–] katze@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 1 day ago

This is actually stated in the xz man page: -0 is sometimes faster than gzip -9 while compressing much better.

With a random test file on my system, xz -0 was 3 times as fast while achieving the same compression as gzip -6.