welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77

Ridiculously fast decompression at good ratios. misa77 is 1.5-3x faster than LZ4 for decompression on x86 and ARM (with better ratios!).

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…for now. What is the advantage of this? Out-of-order execution (see my decoder's hot loop: https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77/blob/3a9... ). In particular, on even moderately compressible data most blocks take the…
comment by nonadhocproblem · 2026-07-15 · in Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
…Here, lz4's decompression speed was far slower than misa77 and zxc. Results are here: https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77/blob/mai...
comment by nonadhocproblem · 2026-07-15 · in Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)
…therefore assume none exists to exploit ILP) has allowed me to speed up my decompression by a lot: https://github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side/misa77/blob/777...
comment by nonadhocproblem · 2026-07-13 · in Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if