Comment by nine_k
4 hours ago
Gzip is woefully old. Its only redeeming value is that it's already built into some old tools. Otherwise, use zstd, which is better and faster, both at compression and decompression. There's no reason to use gzip in anything new, except for backwards compatibility with something old.
One other redeeming quality that gzip/deflate does have is that its low memory requirements (~32 KB per stream). If you're running on an embedded device, or if you're serving a ton of compressed streams at the same time, this can be a meaningful benefit.
> Otherwise, use zstd, which is better and faster
Yes, I do. Zstd is my preferred solution nowadays. But gzip is not going anywhere as a fallback because there is a surprisingly high number of computers without a working libzstd.