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| author | Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> | Sun Mar 29 23:51:43 2015 +0200 |
| committer | Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> | Sun Mar 29 23:51:43 2015 +0200 |
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Merge pull request #66 from Cyan4973/dev Dev
- .gitattributes
- .travis.yml
- LZ4_Frame_Format.html
- Makefile
- NEWS
- README.md
- cmake_unofficial/
- examples/
- images/
- lib/
- lz4_block_format.txt
- programs/
- visual/2012/
LZ4 - Extremely fast compression
LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems. A high compression derivative, called LZ4_HC, is also provided. It trades CPU time for compression ratio.
| Branch | Status |
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Branch Policy:
- The “master” branch is considered stable, at all times.
- The “dev” branch is the one where all contributions must be merged before being promoted to master.
- If you plan to propose a patch, please commit into the “dev” branch. Direct commit to “master” are not permitted.
- Feature branches can also exist, for dedicated testing of larger modifications before merge into “dev” branch.
Benchmarks
The benchmark uses the Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.2) compiled with GCC v4.6.1 on Linux Ubuntu 64-bits v11.10, The reference system uses a Core i5-3340M @2.7GHz. Benchmark evaluates the compression of reference Silesia Corpus in single-thread mode.
The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within lz4_block_format.txt.
For streaming unknown amount of data and compress files of any size, a frame format has been published, and can be consulted within the file LZ4_Frame_Format.html .