Short: A realtime data compression library Author: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer Uploader: Fredrik Wikstrom Type: dev/lib Version: 2.08 Replaces: dev/lib/liblzo_os4.lha Architecture: ppc-amigaos Installation: Copy SDK/#? ALL SDK: MakeLink SOFT SDK:local/newlib/lib/liblzo2.so liblzo2.so.2 ============================================================================ LZO -- a real-time data compression library ============================================================================ Author : Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ Version : 2.08 Date : 29 Jun 2014 Abstract -------- LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed. The LZO algorithms and implementations are copyrighted OpenSource distributed under the GNU General Public License. Introduction ------------ LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time. This means it favours speed over compression ratio. The acronym LZO is standing for Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer. LZO is written in ANSI C. Both the source code and the compressed data format are designed to be portable across platforms. LZO implements a number of algorithms with the following features: - Decompression is simple and *very* fast. - Requires no memory for decompression. - Compression is pretty fast. - Requires 64 KiB of memory for compression. - Allows you to dial up extra compression at a speed cost in the compressor. The speed of the decompressor is not reduced. - Includes compression levels for generating pre-compressed data which achieve a quite competitive compression ratio. - There is also a compression level which needs only 8 KiB for compression. - Algorithm is thread safe. - Algorithm is lossless. LZO supports overlapping compression and in-place decompression.