A new open-source compression codec named misa77 claims to achieve state-of-the-art decompression speeds, decoding twice as fast as LZ4 while maintaining comparable compression ratios. Benchmarks on the Silesia corpus show significantly higher throughput for decompression, though compression speed is notably slower than standard LZ4.
Background
LZ4 is a widely used high-speed compression algorithm known for its balance between speed and ratio, often serving as a baseline for performance comparisons in real-time data processing.
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- Hacker News (RSS)
- Published
- Jul 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10