PApabs3·May 25, 2022Submission
Lizard – efficient compression with fast decompression
66 points · Open discussioninikep
lizard
C2017–2022
inikep / lizard
lizard
Lizard is an efficient compressor with very fast decompression. It achieves compression ratio that is comparable to zip/zlib and zstd/brotli (at low and medium compression levels) at fast decompression speed
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What it is
Lizard is an efficient compressor with very fast decompression. It achieves compression ratio that is comparable to zip/zlib and zstd/brotli (at low and medium compression levels) at fast decompression speed
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Observed mentions: 2017-02-05 21:49:13 UTC to 2022-05-25 04:33:50 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sources> lz4's decompressor is simultaneously simple and also the fastest thing aroud, at least at the moment
The proprietary LzTurbo [0] and free Lizard [1] both claim to be faster at decompression while having better compression ratios.
[0] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
[1] https://github.com/inikep/lizard
In How LZ4 works (2016)Take a look at LZ5 algorithm -> https://github.com/inikep/lz5
In Intern Impact: Brotli compression for Play Store app downloadsCompressor with ratio similar to zip/zstd/brotli at faster decompression speed
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