• @mlg
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    268 months ago

    Very common compression utility for LZMA (.xz file)

    Similar to .gzip, .zip, etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 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.