Evgeny wrote: Speaking of only using it with compression level 1, that's not a starting > point. While LZ4 offers superior speeds, it is not a substitute for any > zlib compression level > 1, including our current default of 5, as the > latter gives better compression ratio. > > I was thinking that it might make sense to make the compression level 1 > our new default, so that new installations would benefit from the increased > speed, while still keeping a decent compression ratio. (If necessary, that > could still be tweaked for better compression.) >
What if the numerical series was stepped back from? This new compression scheme goes in as 'simple-lz4' rather than a number and others in the future are named too? -ph
