lzop

lzop is a free software file compression tool which implements the LZO algorithm and is licensed under the GPL.

lzop
Developer(s)Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
Stable release
1.04 / August 10, 2017 (2017-08-10)
Operating systemCross-platform
Typedata compression
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.lzop.org

Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files slightly larger than gzip while only requiring a tenth of the CPU use and only slightly higher memory utilization.[1] lzop is one of the fastest compressors available,[2] a close second to lz4.

See also

References

  1. "Quick Benchmark: Gzip vs Bzip2 vs LZMA vs XZ vs LZ4 vs LZO - CatchChallenger wiki". catchchallenger.first-world.info. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-03. Retrieved 2010-07-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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