LZO

Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer (LZO) is a general-purpose data compression algorithm, designed for very fast decompression.

LZO is also the name of a library that implements the algorithm.

Related formats

 * LZO compression is used by the lzop (.lzo) file format.
 * The LZ4 format reportedly uses a variant of LZO.
 * NRV (Not Really Vanished) - successor candidate

Software

 * LZO library

Links

 * Wikipedia article