fast and lightweight compression utility.
zlite is a fast and lightweight lossless data compression utility. zlite implements ROLZ algorithm and POLAR encoding.
in practical, zlite compresses better and faster than gzip, but decompresses slower.
simple banchmark with enwik7 (10,000,000 bytes):
zlite | 3530440 | 1.45s | 0.61s |
gzip | 3693800 | 1.90s | 0.24s |