Lzop
Encyclopedia
lzop is a free software
file compression tool which uses LZO
and is under the GPL
license.
Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files a bit larger than gzip
's but with less than a tenth of the CPU use. On many benchmark sites lzop is one of the fastest compressors available.
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
file compression tool which uses LZO
LZO
Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer is a lossless data compression algorithm that is focused on decompression speed.- Design :The LZO library implements a number of algorithms with the following characteristics:...
and is under the GPL
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
license.
Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files a bit larger than gzip
Gzip
Gzip is any of several software applications used for file compression and decompression. The term usually refers to the GNU Project's implementation, "gzip" standing for GNU zip. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of Lempel-Ziv and Huffman coding...
's but with less than a tenth of the CPU use. On many benchmark sites lzop is one of the fastest compressors available.
See also
- List of archive formats
- List of file archivers
- Comparison of file archiversComparison of file archiversThe following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date...