Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
What’s the simplest, but efficient compression algorithm?
Deflate, lzma, etc. aren’t valid options. I need something that compiles really small, like: RLE, LZX, Huffman, etc..
Note: The data is 95% ASCII text
Edit: Data is ~20kb at the moment, but i expect it to grow up to 1mb
Edit2:
Other interesting options
smaz https://github.com/antirez/smaz
FastLZ http://fastlz.org/
It sounds like LZO was designed to meet your requirements: