This is a C port of the google snappy compressor (http://code.google.com/p/snappy/) The compressor is very fast with reasonable compression ratio. It is mainly useful for projects that cannot integrate C++ code, but want snappy. Also contains a command line tool, a benchmark, random test code and a fuzz tester. The compression code supports scather-gather and linear buffers. The scather gather code is ifdefed (-DSG) and can be removed with unifdef. Andi Kleen