[PATCH 1/3] Add the snappy-c compressor to lib
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 08:42:23 EDT 2011
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 14:37 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
>
> This is a C port of the google snappy compressor. It has roughly
> comparable compression to LZO, but is significantly faster on many file
> types. For example it beats all other compressors on already
> compressed data.
Sounds cool, thanks Andi! Is any UBIFS user interested to try this out?
I think this stuff needs some real users to make it go into mainline
smoothly.
Artem.
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