How are zlib, gzip and zip related? What do they have in common and how are they different?

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  1. ZLib

    A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

    It's very nice that Adler wrote that answer. He also maintains https://github.com/madler/zlib

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  3. zlib

    Cloudflare fork of zlib with massive performance improvements (by cloudflare)

    A faster zlib fork is available in https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib but it's not rebased on top of the latest upstream and is not packaged for debian.

  4. zstd

    Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

    If you control the format (e.g. you are compressed data for yourself or you control the software on both ends), you should switch to zstd which is much better (the files are smaller and compression and decompression is faster at the same time, no tradeoff, because of 30 years of advances in technology).

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