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authorYann Collet <yann.collet.73@gmail.com>2015-04-06 01:03:49 +0100
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|**LZ4 HC (r129)** |**2.720**| 22 MB/s | **1830 MB/s** |
| zlib 1.2.8 -6 | 3.099 | 18 MB/s | 270 MB/s |
-The LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_Block_format].
+The raw LZ4 block compression format is detailed within [lz4_Block_format].
-Block format doesn't deal with header information,
-nor how to handle arbitrarily long files or data streams.
-This is the purpose of the Frame format.
-Interoperable versions of LZ4 should use the same frame format,
-defined into [lz4_Frame_format].
+Compressing an arbitrarily long file or data stream requires multiple blocks.
+Organizing these blocks and providing a common header format to handle their content
+is the purpose of the Frame format, defined into [lz4_Frame_format].
+Interoperable versions of LZ4 must respect this frame format too.
[Open-Source Benchmark program by m^2 (v0.14.3)]: http://encode.ru/threads/1371-Filesystem-benchmark?p=34029&viewfull=1#post34029
[Silesia Corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia