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by ant6n 1970 days ago
How does it work?
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I found this blog post describing some of the mechanics, but I am still interested in reading how this may be implemented branchlessly.

http://ticki.github.io/blog/how-lz4-works/

Most interesting question on this thread and gets downvoted. :)
Ring buffer and huffman codes?
I think it’s middle-out compression
It compresses stuff. Amazing.