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James Oliver edited comment on KAFKA-1493 at 10/13/14 7:41 PM: --------------------------------------------------------------- The i/o streams provided in the patch are nearly identical to the i/o streams in lz4-java. As it stands, I don't think it buys us much. Other than that, looks good, just a few spots still referring to lz4hc (I think KAFKA-1471 changes were applied to trunk after this patch was created). This details the formal specification http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2013/04/lz4-streaming-format-final.html Here's an example C++ implementation of that format: https://github.com/t-mat/lz4mt/blob/master/src/lz4mt.cpp We still need a Java implementation was (Author: joliver): Sure, I'll take a look at it now. > Use a well-documented LZ4 compression format and remove redundant LZ4HC option > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-1493 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1493 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.8.2 > Reporter: James Oliver > Assignee: Ivan Lyutov > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.8.2 > > Attachments: KAFKA-1493.patch > > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)