Are you still using gzip or bzip2? If backwards compatibility isn't a concern, there's hardly ever any argument for it. zstd totally outperforms them in speed and still compresses better. If size is your only relevant outcome use xz.
I'm not so sure that you even need to qualify with "if you need to maintain gz support" In my completely unscientific test on one file on one machine I had handy, pigz is both faster and compresses just as well as gz.pic.twitter.com/iy8cZcMb61
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you probably wanted to say zstd at the end. but you're comparing single-threaded zstd with multithreaded gzip. there's pzstd which beats pigz easily.
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Right. I meant to say as well as zstd. pzstd is probably nice, but perhaps less available to mere mortals.pic.twitter.com/dUgOmbhmHG
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