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Arch with XZ (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very common compression utility for LZMA (.xz file)

Similar to .gzip, .zip, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's definitely common, but zstd is gaining on it since in a lot of cases it can produce similarly-sized compressed files but it's quicker to decompress them. There's still some cases where xz is better than zstd, but not very many.