9 November 2023

Interesting benchmark results for general-purpose data compressor performance on Brainfuck code (compiled tiny_sk from the asm2bf distribution):

% wc -c *
29446 tiny_sk.b
 1188 tiny_sk.b.br
 1405 tiny_sk.b.bz2
 1368 tiny_sk.b.bz3
 1345 tiny_sk.b.gz
 1392 tiny_sk.b.lzma
 1097 tiny_sk.b.paq8l
 1269 tiny_sk.b.zst

Remarkably: While PAQ8L wins, its closest contender is actually Brotli. Then Zstandard, to be followed by gzip, bzip3, lzma and bzip2.