lzop is a free software file compression tool which implements the LZO algorithm and is licensed under the GPL.
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Developer(s) | Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer |
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Initial release | August 10, 1997 |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | data compression |
License | GPL |
Website | www |
Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files slightly larger than gzip while only requiring a tenth of the CPU use and only slightly higher memory utilization.[2] lzop is one of the fastest compressors available,[3] a close second to lz4.
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