X-Git-Url: http://mj.ucw.cz/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ucw%2Fdoc%2Fcompress.txt;h=d45276360bd9534d82985a16344389a12b572da5;hb=f501fcf311379b78506474478a17d82382b753e4;hp=7e9509976db2bdfec1294e1a3d3077ba418fe9ef;hpb=fdb438738b41d339e87aaa0c93620a45660ffa5d;p=libucw.git diff --git a/ucw/doc/compress.txt b/ucw/doc/compress.txt index 7e950997..d4527636 100644 --- a/ucw/doc/compress.txt +++ b/ucw/doc/compress.txt @@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ Compression The library contains a compression routine, called LiZaRd. It is modified Lempel-Ziv 77 method with slightly worse compression ratio, -but with faster compression and decompression. +but with faster compression and decompression (compression is few times +faster than zlib, decompression is slightly slower than memcpy()). -// TODO Meaning of the abbreviation -// TODO Actual numbers how fast it is? +The data format and inspiration for code comes from the LZO project +(which couldn't be used due to licence problems). They might be +compatible, but no-one tested that. - <> - <>