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Thursday, December 03, 2009

Two more compression libraries added to the test compression tool



A contributor, Mārtiņš Možeiko, just added support for two more compression libraries. They are LZMA and FastLZ. Click on the picture above to see the performance differences between the various compression libraries.

As you can see it is pretty much a tie between several of the fast LZW style compressors. I would recommend you use the one which has the most liberal license and the cleanest looking source code.

I might, sometime soon, and some additional test cases. The current test case is a 10mb XML file; which I thought was pretty representative of a big ASCII file you might hope to get some good compression out of. I should also add some binary test cases as well.

Thanks all for the contributions. And, once again, here is the link to the compression test library.

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