Lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with...
Lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with...
LZ4 Platforms
Linux
Mac
Windows
LZ4 Overview
It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
Speed can be tuned dynamically, selecting an "acceleration" factor which trades compression ratio for more speed up. On the other end, a high compression derivative, LZ4_HC, is also provided, trading CPU time for improved compression ratio. All versions feature the same decompression speed.