Excerpts from Alex Xu (Hello71)'s message of December 15, 2020 2:03 pm: > bzip2 is either slower or larger than every other supported algorithm, > according to benchmarks at [0]. It is far slower to decompress than any > other algorithm, and still larger than lzma, xz, and zstd. > > [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none@localhost/ > > Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@xxxxxxxx> Upon further research, I found that bzip2 removal was already implemented as part of zstd addition, but were apparently abandoned in an effort to get zstd in. I will check those patches and try sending those instead. Thanks to all reviewers for comments on this patch.
