Comparison with LZO

[Nitin Gupta]

Hi,

I have been using LZO compression for Compressed Caching project
(http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/) for quite some time now. LZO
compression is very fast and decompression is lightening!

I could not find any data on your site comparing fastLZ with LZO. If
you have collected this data, can you please share the same?

Thanks,
Nitin

[Ariya Hidayat]

Hi,

I haven't done extensive measurement yet, but typically LZO compresses
slightly better. However, FastLZ could be twice as fast in most cases.
So, it's a trade off you need to make.

Regards,

Ariya

[Andrew Griffiths]

Hi Nitin,

I found a comparison on speed and compression rate on the QuickLZ
website: http://www.quicklz.com/

I'd definitely like to see some more stats and comparisons with
different datasets :)

Andrew

[Ariya Hidayat]

> I found a comparison on speed and compression rate on the QuickLZ
> website: http://www.quicklz.com/
>
> I'd definitely like to see some more stats and comparisons with
> different datasets :)

Please keep in mind that with a relatively simplistic algorithm used
by FastlZ (and LZF), it is difficult to get a much higher compression
ratio.

Regards,

Ariya