Ruby bindings for LZ4.

gem install lz4-ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'lz4-ruby'

# compress (fast)
compressed = LZ4::compress("hello, world")

# compress (high compression)
compressed = LZ4::compressHC("hello, world")

# uncompress
uncompressed = LZ4::uncompress(compressed)

Tested on VirtualBox VM : 2-core / 4GB RAM (Host : Core i5-2520M / 8GB RAM).

method  ratio(bpc)      comp.time(ms)   uncomp.time(ms)
-------------------------------------------------------
lz4     4.559           519.25          182.67
snappy  4.668           1050.73         257.94
lzo     4.279           1000.13         574.77

• replace calloc() with xalloc() in lz4hc.c

• Write API documents.

Copyright © 2012 KOMIYA Atsushi. See LICENSE.txt for further details.

This Rubygem includes LZ4 codes written by Yann Collet.

LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm
Copyright (C) 2011-2012, Yann Collet.
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