Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>
>> * Package name    : lz4
>>   Description     : Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library
>>
>> LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm.
>
> Is it faster than lzop? How does it compare to lzop, gzip, lzip, xz,
> bzip2 in terms of compression ratio? Please include that information
> in the package description.

OK , I wil include that.
And we can see infomation from website.
  http://code.google.com/p/lz4

I copied infomation about compression ratio and speed.

Name            Ratio   C.speed D.speed
LZ4 (r59)       2.084   330      915
LZO 2.05 1x_1   2.038   311      480
QuickLZ 1.5 -1  2.233   257      277
Snappy 1.0.5    2.024   227      729
LZF             2.076   197      465
FastLZ          2.030   190      420
zlib 1.2.5 -1   2.728    39      195
LZ4 HC (r66)    2.712    18     1020
zlib 1.2.5 -6   3.095    14      210

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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