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A fast compressor/decompressor

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2016-03-07 · latest 2025-04-21

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    Snappy: Fast Compressor/Decompressor
    story by based2 · 2025-04-21 · 0 comments
  2. …to favor speed. Check out those algorithms: * lz4: https://lz4.github.io/lz4/ * Google's snappy: https://github.com/google/snappy * Facebook's zstd in fast mode: http://facebook.github.io/zstd/#benchmarks
  3. https://github.com/google/snappy is ~250 MB/second per core and you can compress in chunks of whatever size is convenient for your GUI to uncompress and render.
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    Google Snappy – Compression/Decompression Library
    story by peter_d_sherman · 2019-05-08 · 0 comments
  5. …the result set within your application. You should give it a try, you'll really like it :) [1] https://github.com/google/snappy