MSVC zstd de/compression is much slower than Clang

ZStd & LZ4 have very poor speed in their MSVC build, they do much better in a clang build. Their clang build can be around 1.5X faster.

MUCH slower compression speeds using version 1.5.1 · Issue #2966

In my benchmarks for my use case, which is compressing streaming network data, zlib now beats zstd with regard to speed and output size. To ...

MSVC vs Clang++ Performance - has anyone tested recently on a ...

Due to some comments I fully updated Visual Studio 2022 and Rust then re-ran the benchmarks on the same machine. Something interesting happened.

Float Compression 1: Generic - Aras Pranckevičius

On a Microsoft platform you might want to look into using Clang to compile it; decompression goes from around 1GB/s up to 2GB/s! Or… someone ...

Zstd Compression Being Eyed For Use Within LLVM - Phoronix

Zstd's compression ratio is similar to DEFLATE but making it attractive to so many software projects is its much faster decompression speeds.

LZAV - Fast Data Compression Algorithm (in C/C++) - GitHub

Compared to Clang, other compilers systematically produce 5% slower LZAV code. ... to LZ4: LZAV decompression requires more code branching. Another ...

Why is Clang so much slower compiling than MSVC?

I wrote a build.bat for Clang and MSVC, both with 3 different build settings: Slow, Fast and Release. MSVC compiles both of them faster than ...

Highest scored 'zstd' questions - Stack Overflow

Zstd decompression error - Unknown frame descriptor. I'm trying to decompress a .zst file the following way : public byte[] decompress() { byte[] ...

Utilities/cmzstd · v3.29.2 · CMake / CMake · GitLab

Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better ...

Float Compression 9: LZSSE and Lizard - Aras Pranckevičius

... compression ratio than LZ4, a bit slower decompression speed. In the middle between Zstd and LZ4 when it comes to decompression parameter space.

Better Compression with Zstandard - Gregory Szorc's Digital Home

On the other end of the spectrum, zstd level 22 runs ~1 MB/s slower than LZMA at level 9 and produces a file that is only 2.3% larger. It's ...

Zstandard - Page 14 - Encode's Forum

Zstd dictionaries use -- while less efficient than shared brotli style shared dictionary coding -- also likely rots much slower than SDCH ...

zstd latest version - Awesome C++

... to the fast zstd decompression speed ... This can cause dictionaries to counter-intuitively result in a lower compression ratio when compressing large inputs.

pyzstd module — pyzstd module documentation

# It's faster than reading a file and compressing it in # memory, tested on ... Represents a zstd dictionary, can be used for compression/decompression.

LZOMA - Encode's Forum

But it was not usable due to very slow compresion speed and huge compressor ... a bit better, while zstd had worse compression ratio than lzoma. lzoma still ...

Building LLVM with CMake — LLVM 20.0.0git documentation

... a lot of RAM and disk space and is usually slower to run. You can ... Used to decide if LLVM tools should support compression/decompression with zstd.

Command Line Options Reference - FASTBuild

Higher values compress more, but are slower. Timings ... Enables re-formatting of warnings, errors and notes for GCC/SNC & Clang to Visual Studio format.

CHANGELOG - third_party/zstd - Git at Google

perf: much faster dictionary compression, by @felixhandte. perf: small ... New : Command `--rm`, to remove source file after successful de/compression.

zstd - Swift Package Index

For a larger picture including slow modes, click on this link. The case for Small Data compression. Previous charts provide results applicable to typical file ...

changelog - Debian on Apple hardware (M1 and later)

... compression of arrays of integers at high compression, by @Cyan4973 lib ... zstd no longer crashes when requested to write into write-protected ...