Need a Faster Compressor

Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun May 22 06:40:03 PDT 2016


On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 12:12:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:

>
> Yes, LZO, LZ4, or snappy would be good choices. They are 
> real-time compression algorithms, i.e. it's faster to compress 
> and write to main memory than w/o compression.

Yes the LZ compressors are very good for this usecase

> Please don't write anything on your own. There is a meta 
> library for those algorithms http://blosc.org/, for which I 
> added Deimos headers http://code.dlang.org/packages/d-blosc.

Agreed. The existing implementations have been fine-tuned for 
performance, and we should use them as leverage.



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list