RepoSep 8, 2026
bzip3 Beat xz on Size and Speed, Then We Found What Its Release Notes Left Out
bzip3 hit the Hacker News front page with 412 points and shipped version 1.5.4 six hours later. We built it, benchmarked it against xz and zstd on 100MB of Wikipedia text, and reproduced the silent data loss bug the release quietly fixed.
Sep 8, 20266 min