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Compression on Real Files: 3,420 Benchmark Runs Across Brotli, Zstd, LZMA2, LZ4, gzip, and bzip2

A deep benchmark of 36 real files and directories across 95 compression presets, with interactive charts for ratio, speed, decompression cost, and category-specific winners.

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