feature for Web protocols, data interchange and ETL (in standard pipes) applications.

[10] These implementations originally come from NetBSD, and support decompression of bzip2 and the Unix pack format.

pigz, written by Mark Adler, is compatible with gzip and speeds up compression by using all available CPU cores and threads.

Data from blocks not demolished by damage that are located afterward may be recoverable through difficult workarounds.

The gzip format is used in HTTP compression, a technique used to speed up the sending of HTML and other content on the World Wide Web.

Since the late 1990s, bzip2, a file compression utility based on a block-sorting algorithm, has gained some popularity as a gzip replacement.

It produces considerably smaller files (especially for source code and other structured text), but at the cost of memory and processing time (up to a factor of 4).

[citation needed] Research published in 2023 showed that simple lossless compression techniques such as gzip could be combined with a k-nearest-neighbor classifier to create an attractive alternative to deep neural networks for text classification in natural language processing.