lizard

An efficient compressor with very fast decompression

Version

1.0-5
(2023-03-18)

Size

291.6

KiB

Repository

HaikuPorts
x86_64
Lizard is a lossless compression algorithm which contains 4 compression methods:
fastLZ4 : compression levels -10...-19 are designed to give better decompression speed than LZ4 i.e. over 2000 MB/s
LIZv1 : compression levels -20...-29 are designed to give better ratio than LZ4 keeping 75% decompression speed
fastLZ4 + Huffman : compression levels -30...-39 add Huffman coding to fastLZ4
LIZv1 + Huffman : compression levels -40...-49 give the best ratio (comparable to zlib and low levels of zstd/brotli) at decompression speed of 1000 MB/s.