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<h1>LZ4 - Extremely fast compression</h1>
<b>LZ4</b> is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed
at 400 MB/s per core (0.16 Byte/cycle), scalable with multi-cores CPU.
It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple
GB/s per core (0.71 Byte/cycle), typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
A high compression derivative, called <b>LZ4_HC</b>, is also provided.
It trades CPU time for compression ratio.
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Benchmarks
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The benchmark uses the
[Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.2)](http://encode.ru/threads/1371-Filesystem-benchmark?p=33548&viewfull=1#post33548)
compiled with GCC v4.6.1 on Linux Ubuntu 64-bits v11.10,
The reference system uses a Core i5-3340M @2.7GHz.
Benchmark evaluates the compression of reference [Silesia Corpus](http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia) in single-thread mode.
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## Specifications
The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_block_format.txt](lz4_block_format.txt).
For streaming unknown amount of data, and compress files of any size, a frame format has been published, and can be consulted within the file [LZ4_Frame_Format.html](LZ4_Frame_Format.html).
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## Interoperable LZ4 versions
The following versions are provided for languages beyond the C reference version. They are in conformance with the LZ4 frame specification and are therefore interoperable.
* __Javascript__ : by Pierre Curto, at https://github.com/pierrec/node-lz4
* __C++11__ multi-threads : by Takayuki Matsuoka, at https://github.com/t-mat/lz4mt
* __Python__ : by Christopher Jackson, at https://github.com/darkdragn/lz4tools
* __Delphi__ : by Hanno Hugenberg, at https://github.com/Hugie/lz4-delphi
* __Go__ : by Pierre Curto, at https://github.com/pierrec/lz4
* __Rust__ : by Artem Navrotskiy, at https://github.com/bozaro/lz4-rs
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## Other Source versions :
The following versions compress data blocks using LZ4 compression algorithm in multiple languages. Each version encapsulates the compressed result into its own header/frame format convention.
* __Java__ : by Adrien Grand, at https://github.com/jpountz/lz4-java
* __Python__ : by Steeve Morin, at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/lz4
* __Perl__ : by Gray, at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Compress-LZ4/
* __C#__ : by Milosz Krajewski, at http://lz4net.codeplex.com
* __C#__ streaming : by Phill Djonov, at https://github.com/pdjonov/Lz4Stream
* __Go__ : by Branimir Karadzic, at https://github.com/bkaradzic/go-lz4
* __Ruby__ : by Komiya Atsushi, at http://rubygems.org/gems/lz4-ruby
* __PHP__ : by Kamijo, at https://github.com/kjdev/php-ext-lz4
* __Lua__ : by Christophe Delord, at http://cdsoft.fr/bl/bonaluna.html
* __Haskell__ : by Mark Wotton, at http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lz4
* __Erlang__ : by Tetsuya Suzuki, at https://github.com/szktty/erlang-lz4
* __Smalltalk__ (Pharo) : by Mariano Martinez Peck, at http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~marianopeck/LZ4/
* __OCaml__ : by Peter Zotov, at https://github.com/whitequark/ocaml-lz4
* __Rust__ : by Alex Crichton, at http://alexcrichton.com/rust-compress/compress/lz4/index.html
* __8088 assembly__ decoder, by Jim Leonard, at http://www.oldskool.org/pc/lz4_8088
* __6502 & 65C02 assembly__ decoder, by Peter Ferrie, at http://pferrie.host22.com/misc/appleii.htm
* __Atari XL/XE assembly__ decoder, by xxl, at http://xxl.atari.pl/?p=1524
* __65c816 assembly__ decoder, by Olivier Zardini, at http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/lz4/index.html
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## LZ4 is used by
* __Operating Systems__ :  [Linux](https://github.com/torvalds/linux),  [FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org/),  [Illumos](http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home),  [SmartOS](http://smartos.org/)
* __File Systems__ : OpenZFS, Hammer2, SquashFS, LessFS, LeoFS, Grub
* __Big Data__ : Hadoop, Cassandra, Hbase, Rarelogic, SparkSpark, Hustle
* __Search Engine__ : Lucene, Solr, Scalyr, kafka
* __Database__ : MySQL, Tokudb, Delphix, infiniSQL, RocksDB, OlegDB
* __Games__ : Battlefield 4, Guild Wars 2, Sine Mora, 1000 Tiny Claws
* __Graphics__ : nVidia, Enlightenment, Xpra, OpenVDB, Scaplib, kanzi
* __Network__ : freeNAS, openVPN, Netty, dovecot, virtualHere
* __Storage__ : Datastax, Nimble Storage, Nexenta, K2 Spear, Syneto OS
* __Caching__ : Zram, HHVM, PHP Zend Optimizer
* __Other__ : Mozilla Firefox, Bareos, GTKWave, Blosc, Facebook's Mercurial, Nippy, systemd
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