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> more dense than gzip and compress/decompress faster

If you're saying brotli compresses/decompresses faster that gzip, it doesn't according to Cloudflare tests [1] (see table near bottom).

Even the fastest compression level of Brotli is slower than the highest/slowest compression level of gzip in most cases.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/results-experimenting-brotli/




> If you're saying brotli compresses/decompresses faster that gzip, it doesn't according to Cloudflare tests.

It doesn't always compress faster, but as far as I can tell they didn't measure or say anything about decompression.


I just did this:

time bro --quality 6 --input linux-4.5.tar --output linux-4.5.tar.bro

real 0m18.436s user 0m18.228s sys 0m0.184s

time gzip -9 linux-4.5.tar real 0m30.555s user 0m30.424s sys 0m0.172s

ls -lh (I removed the metadata): 106M linux-4.5.tar.bro 129M linux-4.5.tar.gz

Only 82% of the size at 60% of the time. Now this is pure text so that's not a good example of everything.




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