Re: Need a Faster Compressor

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/23/2016 5:04 AM, Stefan Koch wrote:
Am Sun, 22 May 2016 23:42:33 -0700
schrieb Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>:

The file format: http://cyan4973.github.io/lz4/lz4_Block_format.html

It doesn't look too difficult. If we implement our own LZ4 compressor based on
that, from scratch, we can boost license it.

That it right. It's pretty simple.


Also, the LZ4 compressor posted here has a 64K string limit, which won't work 
for D because there are reported 8Mb identifier strings.