lzop

fast compression program
  https://www.lzop.org/
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Lzop is a compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind: 1) reliability 2) speed (both compression and decompression) 3) reasonable drop-in compatibility with gzip 4) portability
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silver 13 years ago

Middling compression ratio, but compression speed is often real-time. This makes lzo great for shuffling around gobs of data, for when compression status is unknown, for data known to compress easily and well, etc.