> From: Harald Becker <[email protected]> > And what about lzop? It is another compressor not very widely used.
Actually, I use lzop extensively in my company. It is hands down the fastest compression algorithm available in BusyBox in both directions, and when you are more concerned with performance than compression ratio (but still want decent compression) lzop is a fantastic tool. It's the only compressor that is fast enough to squeeze additional bandwidth out of network links (because compression on even a slower modern PC is faster than the speed of a gigabit ethernet connection). Piping a stream through lzop (especially with the -1 switch) is practically free in computational terms, and nets a fair compression ratio.
I can't be the only person who uses lzop in such a manner. Plus, on embedded systems, the overhead is minimal and the RAM requirement to use lzop is tiny (gzip is a beast by comparison), so it fits in very well with the spirit of BusyBox.
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