Package: lzop (1.03-4 and others)

fast compression program

lzop is a compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind:

 1) reliability
 2) speed (both compression and decompression)
 3) reasonable drop-in compatibility with gzip
 4) portability

Tags: Implemented in: C, User Interface: Command Line, Role: role::program, scope::utility, Purpose: Compressing, Works with: Archive, Files

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