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Snappy Compression Library (google.github.io)
11 points by ii41 266 days ago
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Trades compression rate for much higher speed. This is really good trade-off for certain applications.
Snappy is really old, open sourced in 2011. It is strictly worse than LZ4, which achieves a better compression ratio at better speed and vastly better decompression speed.