I think personally, the biggest factor for using zstd is that compression settings don't matter for the decompression speed.
Doesn't matter if I used zstd-fast or zstd-19 the read speed is the same. Hence a lot of linux distros adopt it for packaging; they spent a few days of CPU time compressing their packages on zstd-19 (archlinux does IIRC), the user couldn't tell that it's been hard compressed like that.
Doesn't matter if I used zstd-fast or zstd-19 the read speed is the same. Hence a lot of linux distros adopt it for packaging; they spent a few days of CPU time compressing their packages on zstd-19 (archlinux does IIRC), the user couldn't tell that it's been hard compressed like that.