zstd
brew install zstd
v1.5.7_1
(BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only) AND BSD-2-Clause AND MIT
Fast, modern compression algorithm and command-line tool with better compression ratios and speed than gzip or bzip2.
Why you might care
Zstd offers significantly faster compression and decompression than traditional algorithms while achieving better ratios, making it ideal for archiving, streaming, and real-time data compression in production systems. It's become the default compressor in many modern tools (containers, package managers, databases) and is a drop-in replacement for gzip in many workflows.
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Runtime dependencies
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Links
- https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
- Brew formula source: Formula/z/zstd.rb
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