[arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

Thomas Ludwig t3000 at posteo.de
Sat Feb 20 10:41:19 UTC 2021


On 20.02.21 11:31 mike lojkovic via arch-general 
<arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> zstd is even faster at decompressing at boot than lz4 now?

I wonder about this, too. Even the zstd guys don't claim that:

https://github.com/facebook/zstd#benchmarks

According to their benchmarks lz4 decompression is way faster. That's 
why I don't really understand the hype about zstd.


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