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lz4-1.10.0

fast BSD-licensed data compression

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Description

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

Package information

Ports path
archivers/lz4
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Bjorn Ketelaars <bket@openbsd.org>
Categories
archivers
Available flavors
None listed

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