lzop is a free software file compression tool which implements the LZO algorithm and is licensed under the GPL.

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lzop
Developer(s)Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
Initial releaseAugust 10, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-08-10)
Stable release
1.04[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 10 August 2017; 7 years ago (10 August 2017)
Operating systemCross-platform
Typedata compression
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.lzop.org
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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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