# \#compression

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## [Image Compression Performance](https://discourse.itk.org/t/image-compression-performance/5570)

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**Author:** [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [December 13, 2022, 2:28pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/image-compression-performance/5570 "2022-12-13T14:28:21Z")

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I have encountered a situations where using gzip level 9 to compress an image is taking ~40x longer (depending on the image content) than writing the image without compression @dzenanz I recall you did some performance …