On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 10:23:17PM -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote: > Dann Corbit wrote: > > > >The LZMA SDK is granted to the public domain: > >http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html > > > > I played with this but found the SDK extremely confusing and flat out > horrible. One personal dislike was the unnecessary use of C++; although it > was the horrible API that turned me off. I'm not even sure if I ever got a > test program working. > > LZO (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) is a great algorithm, easy > API with many variants; my fav is LZO1X-1(15). Its known for its > compresison and decompresison speeds ... its blazing fast. zlib typically > gets 5-8% more compression.
LZO rocks. I wonder if the lzo developer would consider a license exception so that postgresql could use it? What would we need? -dg -- David Gould da...@sonic.net 510 536 1443 510 282 0869 If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
