LZHAM Is Still Ticking Along To Further Open-Source Lossless Compression

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LZHAM Is Still Ticking Along To Further Open-Source Lossless Compression

It's been nearly one year since last talking about LZHAM, the lossless data compression codec designed by a former Valve developer and has been showing great potential -- particularly by game developers for compressing assets. While LZHAM news has been quiet, Rich Geldreich has still been hard at work on advancing open-source lossless compression...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LZHAM-Developer-Continues

[richgel999]

(Thanks for the coverage Phoronix!)

The LZHAM v1.1 release candidate is currently on a separate repo here:

https://github.com/richgel999/lzham_codec_devel

This version is well tested, has much faster single threaded compression, the "extreme" (best of X arrivals) parser is now practical to use as the default, and it has many more tuning options for higher ratios. I have one more fix coming which should improve decompression throughput on small blocks before the official release.