25 Feb
2016
25 Feb
'16
2:32 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
As for (2), the licensing issue... this appears to be a show stopper for using LZO. As I've said, I'm not wed to any particular compression algorithm, so I'm happy to revert to Gzip or another suggestion if there's one. For my own use case, my precious resources are RAM and disk space. Runtime is not a concern to me as this operation is already dwarfed by other things on my critical path.
From what I have seen in recent years, xz and 7z appear to be rather good
compression algorithms, but also a bit slow.
7z seems to support multithreading at the least: today that should be standard for any time-consuming algorithm, but it still isn't.
Makarius