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| author | Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> | 2015-04-06 01:03:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Yann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com> | 2015-04-06 01:03:49 +0100 |
| commit | 61d74164254d49508df7fb2c213b5346d00f8ac2 (patch) | |
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| parent | 17f86149c52a3a3c131c23f2b6452f172d9364a6 (diff) | |
| download | lz4-61d74164254d49508df7fb2c213b5346d00f8ac2.tar.gz | |
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@@ -50,13 +50,12 @@ in single-thread mode. |**LZ4 HC (r129)** |**2.720**| 22 MB/s | **1830 MB/s** | | zlib 1.2.8 -6 | 3.099 | 18 MB/s | 270 MB/s | -The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_Block_format]. +The raw LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_Block_format]. -Block format doesn't deal with header information, -nor how to handle arbitrarily long files or data streams. -This is the purpose of the Frame format. -Interoperable versions of LZ4 should use the same frame format, -defined into [lz4_Frame_format]. +Compressing an arbitrarily long file or data stream requires multiple blocks. +Organizing these blocks and providing a common header format to handle their content +is the purpose of the Frame format, defined into [lz4_Frame_format]. +Interoperable versions of LZ4 must respect this frame format too. [Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.3)]: http://encode.ru/threads/1371-Filesystem-benchmark?p=34029&viewfull=1#post34029 [Silesia Corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia |