| commit | d535214e6101f5bb4697208d439306ca69399c7c | [log] [download] |
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| author | Charles Allen <charles@allen-net.com> | Mon Apr 13 10:57:31 2015 -0700 |
| committer | Charles Allen <charles@allen-net.com> | Mon Apr 13 10:57:31 2015 -0700 |
| tree | 79e5a10f38e4cf440d6737ac50f12f3fbb9d1190 | |
| parent | 160661c7a4cbf805f4af74d2e3932a17a66e6ce7 [diff] |
Add more descriptive frame errors
- .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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| master |  |
| dev |  |
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 .