lz4 java_LZ4 - 极快的无损压缩算法

LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

Speed can be tuned dynamically, selecting an "acceleration" factor which trades compression ratio for more speed up. On the other end, a high compression derivative, LZ4_HC, is also provided, trading CPU time for improved compression ratio. All versions feature the same decompression speed.

LZ4 library is provided as open-source software using BSD 2-Clause license.

Branch

Status

master

dev

Branch Policy:

The "master" branch is considered stable, at all times.

The "dev" branch is the one where all contributions must be merged before being promoted to master.

If you plan to propose a patch, please commit into the "dev" branch, or its own feature branch. Direct commit to "master" are not permitted.

Benchmarks

The benchmark uses lzbench, from @inikep compiled with GCC v6.2.0 on Linux 64-bits. The reference system uses a Core i7-3930K CPU @ 4.5GHz. Benchmark evaluates the compression of reference Silesia Corpus in single-thread mode.

Compressor

Ratio

Compression

Decompression

memcpy

1.000

7300 MB/s

7300 MB/s

LZ4 fast 8 (v1.7.3)

1.799

911 MB/s

3360 MB/s

LZ4 default (v1.7.3)

2.101

625 MB/s

3220 MB/s

LZO 2.09

2.108

620 MB/s

845 MB/s

QuickLZ 1.5.0

2.238

510 MB/s

600 MB/s

Snappy 1.1.3

2.091

450 MB/s

1550 MB/s

LZF v3.6

2.073

365 MB/s

820 MB/s

2.876

330 MB/s

930 MB/s

3.164

200 MB/s

810 MB/s

zlib deflate 1.2.8 -1

2.730

100 MB/s

370 MB/s

LZ4 HC -9 (v1.7.3)

2.720

34 MB/s

3240 MB/s

zlib deflate 1.2.8 -6

3.099

33 MB/s

390 MB/s

LZ4 is also compatible and well optimized for x32 mode, for which it provides an additional +10% speed performance.

Installation

make

make install # this command may require root access

LZ4's Makefile supports standard Makefile conventions, including staged installs, redirection, or command redefinition. It is compatible with parallel builds (-j#).

Documentation

The raw LZ4 block compression format is detailed within lz4_Block_format.

To compress an arbitrarily long file or data stream, multiple blocks are required. Organizing these blocks and providing a common header format to handle their content is the purpose of the Frame format, defined into lz4_Frame_format. Interoperable versions of LZ4 must respect this frame format.

Other source versions

Beyond the C reference source, many contributors have created versions of lz4 in multiple languages (Java, C#, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.). A list of known source ports is maintained on the LZ4 Homepage.