On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:06:46AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Hmm. LZO is the best compression algorithm for the task as measured by > the objectives of good compression effectiveness while still having very > low CPU usage (the best of those written and GPL'd, there is a slightly > better one which is proprietary and uses more CPU, LZRW if I remember > right. The gzip code base uses too much CPU, though I think Edward made
I don't think that LZO beats LZF in both speed and compression ratio. LZF is also available under GPL (dual-licensed BSD) and was choosen in favor of LZO for the next generation suspend-to-disk code of the Linux kernel. see: http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html -- ciao - Stefan
