On Thursday, 28 April 2016 at 06:03:46 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
There exist some comparisons for the C++ implementations
(zlib's DEFLATE being a variation of lz77):
http://catchchallenger.first-world.info//wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9b69/86f2fff8db7e080ef8b02aa19f3941a61a91.pdf
(pg.9)
The high compression variant of lz4 basically like gzip with 9x
faster decompression. That makes it well suited for use cases
where you compress once, decompress often and I/O sequential
reads are fast e.g. 200 MB/s or the program does other
computations meanwhile and one doesn't want decompression to
use a lot of CPU time.
Thanks for the 2. link you posted.
This made me aware of a few things I were not aware of before.
