Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add the snappy-c compressor to lib

Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-30T12:42:29Z

On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 14:37 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
>
> This is a C port of the google snappy compressor. It has roughly
> comparable compression to LZO, but is significantly faster on many file
> types. For example it beats all other compressors on already
> compressed data.

Sounds cool, thanks Andi! Is any UBIFS user interested to try this out?
I think this stuff needs some real users to make it go into mainline
smoothly.

Artem.