Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:44:31 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Tim Kientzle" <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? Message-ID: <9bbcef730811261244l59b3c7bdq5732af7b9facf1dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <492DAB86.8030500@freebsd.org> References: <259774.68895.qm@web39105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <gghej8$qq0$1@ger.gmane.org> <492DAB86.8030500@freebsd.org>
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2008/11/26 Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>: > There's also something called "lzop", though I'm not > yet sure what exactly that is. lzop is the LZO archiver - created for high-speed compression, not compression efficiency. Unfortunately, LZO is GPL :( But that reminds me - while you're adding compression formats, you might add lzf (http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html) which is a very high-speed compressor (again, no emphasis on efficiency), BSDL, implemented in something like 500 lines of C :) "...Very fast compression speeds, rivaling a straight copy loop, especially for decompression which is basically at (unoptimized) memcpy-speed"
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