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bhouston on Jan 25, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zstandard – Fast and efficient compression algorit...

How does it compare to lzham? That alto has some amazing speed and ratio and is zlib compatible.

MichaelGG on Jan 25, 2015 [–]

This looks to compress much faster and suited for some realtime usage. lzham is OK for decompression (but still slower) and is like 8x slower on compression.

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