lzop is a
free software
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file compression tool which implements the
LZO algorithm and is licensed under the
GPL
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Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files slightly larger than
gzip while only requiring a tenth of the CPU use and only slightly higher memory utilization. lzop is one of the fastest compressors available,
a close second to
lz4.
See also
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List of archive formats
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List of file archivers
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Comparison of file archivers
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Free data compression software
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