RealTime Data Compression

 A little detail has always annoyed me within the LZ4  source code : the presence of 2 compression functions, and 2 decompression function...

[Edit] : the specification linked from this blog post is quite old by now. Prefer consulting the up-to-date version, stored directly in...

It is a long time since I'm willing to produce a suitable streaming format for LZ4. As stated earlier, the format defined into lz...

 It's a few monthes since the initial release of xxHash . The algorithm has almost fullfilled its initial objective, which is to prov...

 Although i'm currently on holliday, with limited access to the world wide web, i would like to link here an interesting contribution...

 If there is a situation where data is inherently short-lived, it is communication. Data starts its live on the sender side, and end it on...

 After spending some time on expected properties at streaming level, let's now get to the core of the objective, regarding the compress...

 The previous articles were primarily targeted at  error detection and memory buffer management , which are, arguably, very important fea...