Yes, it compresses better then gzip but it's somewhat slower. IMHO, it's the most balanced compression algorithm because the ones that compress the most (LZMA-based) are too slow for my taste.

The benchmark that Tony linked above is a good reference, and there's another one here: http://blog.i-no.de/archives/2008/05/08/index.html

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