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RE: Compressing hippos really fast
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'argh quotefix keeps picking the wrong name'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:33:03 -0000
- Subject: RE: Compressing hippos really fast
- References: <20080304154316.GU18407@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On 04 March 2008 15:43, oh.no.my@quotefix.is.borken wrote:
> does anybody know about a compression tool which is above all capable of
> compressing really fast? The compression ratio is only a mild concern,
> it's rather more important that the tool is not acting as bottleneck
> when compressing files which are badly compressable. Unfortunately
> the usual compression tools are rather interested in a good compression
> than in a good speed when streaming lots of data.
Hmm, I came across something much like this lately while researching
compression: take a look at LZO. It focusses more on uncompression speed
but is also supposed to be fairly fast for compression.
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
It should be possible to use lzop as an inline filter compressor, more or
less as a direct drop-in replacement for gzip
http://www.lzop.org/
cheers,
DaveK
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