LZO 2.01 review

LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 577K Developer: Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer

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LZO is a data compression library which is suitable for data de-/compression in real-time. This means it favours speed over compression ratio.

LZO is written in ANSI C. Both the source code and the compressed data format are designed to be portable across platforms.

Here are some key features of "LZO":
Decompression is simple and *very* fast.
Requires no memory for decompression.
Compression is pretty fast.
Requires 64 kB of memory for compression.
Allows you to dial up extra compression at a speed cost in the compressor. The speed of the decompressor is not reduced.
Includes compression levels for generating pre-compressed data which achieve a quite competitive compression ratio.
There is also a compression level which needs only 8 kB for compression.
Algorithm is thread safe.
Algorithm is lossless.

What's New in This Release:
Changed the configure system to install the LZO library under the name "liblzo2" so that parallel installation with LZO v1 is possible.
Improved auto-configuration in miniLZO for some embedded targets like Blackfin and H8/300 processors.