liblz4-dev 0.0~r109-1 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu trusty

 LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm.
 This uses Dictionary compression, and only supports compression and
 decompression unit blocks.
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 Infomation about compression ratio and speed (from webpage of lz4):
 single thread, Core 2 Duo @3GHz, using the Open-Source Benchmark
 program by m^2 compiled with GCC v4.5.2, on the Silesia Corpus.
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 Name Ratio C.speed D.speed
 LZ4 (r59) 2.084 330 915
 LZO 2.05 1x_1 2.038 311 480
 QuickLZ 1.5 -1 2.233 257 277
 Snappy 1.0.5 2.024 227 729
 LZF 2.076 197 465
 FastLZ 2.030 190 420
 zlib 1.2.5 -1 2.728 39 195
 LZ4 HC (r66) 2.712 18 1020
 zlib 1.2.5 -6 3.095 14 210
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 This package contains files that are needed to build applications.