GoKawiilBZip3 compressor beats BZip2 and rivals xz on Perl source archive test
BZip3, an open-source successor to BZip2, combines a Burrows-Wheeler transform with suffix arrays, an LZ77/PPM-style matching pass, and an order-0 context-mixing entropy coder to boost both compression ratio and speed. In a benchmark compressing every historical Perl 5 release bundled into one tar file, BZip3 with a large block size produced a much smaller output than bzip2, xz, and zstd, while also decompressing faster than the other tools tested.