| 1 | DESCRIPTION
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| 2 | LZF is an extremely fast (not that much slower than a pure memcpy)
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| 3 | compression algorithm. It is ideal for applications where you want to
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| 4 | save *some* space but not at the cost of speed. It is ideal for
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| 5 | repetitive data as well. The module is self-contained and very small.
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| 7 | It's written in ISO-C with no external dependencies other than what
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| 8 | C provides and can easily be #include'd into your code, no makefile
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| 9 | changes or library builds requires.
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| 11 | A C♯ implementation without external dependencies is available, too.
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| 13 | I do not know for certain wether any patents in any countries apply
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| 14 | to this algorithm, but at the moment it is believed that it is free
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| 15 | from any patents. More importantly, it is also free to use in every
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| 16 | software package (see LICENSE).
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| 18 | See the lzf.h file for details on how the functions in this
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| 19 | mini-library are to be used.
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| 21 | NOTE: This package contains a very bare-bones command-line utility
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| 22 | which is neither optimized for speed nor for compression. This library
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| 23 | is really intented to be used inside larger programs.
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| 25 | AUTHOR
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| 26 | This library was written by Marc Lehmann <[email protected]> (See also
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| 27 | http://liblzf.plan9.de/).
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