lzop is a
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, n ...
file compression tool which implements the
LZO algorithm and is licensed under the
GPL.
Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files slightly larger than
gzip
gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression. The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and i ...
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
This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.
Archiving only
Compression only
Archiving and compression
Data recovery
Comparison Containers and compression
Notes
While the original ...
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List of file archivers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unless ...
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Comparison of file archivers
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. They are neither all-inclusive nor are some entries necessarily up to date. Unles ...
References
External links
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Free data compression software
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