LZMA VS FiniteStateEntropy

Compare LZMA vs FiniteStateEntropy and see what are their differences.

LZMA

(Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases (by jljusten)

FiniteStateEntropy

New generation entropy codecs : Finite State Entropy and Huff0 (by Cyan4973)
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LZMA FiniteStateEntropy
2 4
42 1,263
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0.0 0.0
over 5 years ago over 1 year ago
C++ C
- BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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LZMA

Posts with mentions or reviews of LZMA. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.

FiniteStateEntropy

Posts with mentions or reviews of FiniteStateEntropy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.
  • Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    It's obsolete. It's limited to 32KB LZ window with huffman coding. Zstd can use a much larger window (8MB recommended) and a much better entropy coder: https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy
  • Worries about tANS?
    5 projects | /r/compression | 22 Apr 2023
    tANS block based : FSE
  • Silly Lossy Text Compression Idea
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2022
    Sounds similar to: https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2540

    > The modern data compression is mainly based on two approaches to entropy coding: Huffman (HC) and arithmetic/range coding (AC). The former is much faster, but approximates probabilities with powers of 2, usually leading to relatively low compression rates. The latter uses nearly exact probabilities - easily approaching theoretical compression rate limit (Shannon entropy), but at cost of much larger computational cost.

  • C Deep
    80 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2021
    FiniteStateEntropy - Two highly efficient compression codecs optimized for modern CPUs. BSD-2-Clause

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LZMA and FiniteStateEntropy you can also consider the following projects:

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

zlib-ng - zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems.

brotli - Brotli compression format

LZFSE - LZFSE compression library and command line tool

LZHAM - Lossless data compression codec with LZMA-like ratios but 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed, C/C++

PhysicsFS - PhysFS++ is a C++ wrapper for the PhysicsFS library.