What're lzo and lzf, and the differences?

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Mickey Shine picture Mickey Shine · Feb 23, 2011 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

Hi I heard of lzo and lzf and seems they are all compression algorithms. Are they the same thing? Are there any other algorithms like them(light and fast)?

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Cyan picture Cyan · Mar 7, 2011

lzo and lzf are 2 well known very simple compression algorithms. lzf goes for low memory usage during compression. lzo goes for maximum decoding speed. Both are fast, both have little memory requirements, both have comparable compression rates (which means very poor).

You can look at a direct comparison of them with other compressors here for example : http://phantasie.tonempire.net/t96-compression-benchmark#149

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