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		rb2k_ on April 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kraken: 3x faster decompression than zlib Another interesting compression project is "Zstandard" Open source, high performance, decent compression and a "dictionary mode" that's especially fun when it comes to compressing a lot of small data. http://www.zstd.net Previous discussion over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8941955

eln1 on April 28, 2016 | [–]

Also lzturbo is very interesting, closed source but you one can download exec: https://sites.google.com/site/powturbo/ https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench

richdougherty on April 28, 2016 | [–]

Here's a nice graph from the zstd site, showing the trade off between compression and speed for several different algorithms:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cyan4973/zstd/master/image...

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