pipeline increased from 4 to 8 slots. This change substantially improves decompression speed when there are long distance offsets. example with enwik9 compressed at level 22 : gcc-9 : 947 -> 1039 MB/s clang-10: 884 -> 946 MB/s I also checked the "cold dictionary" scenario, and found a smaller benefit, around ~2% (measurements are more noisy for this scenario).