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LZMA
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ELI5: How exactly does winrar profit without a major loss with their current business plan?
Their SDK is in the public domain though.
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Searching Compressed Space
And that links to https://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html , in the download there see the DOC folder for documentation? I really can't figure out how that somehow 'sends you back to python's lzma'...
What are some alternatives?
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
brotli - Brotli compression format
Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor
LZHAM - Lossless data compression codec with LZMA-like ratios but 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed, C/C++
LZMAT - git mirror of LZMAT (http://www.matcode.com/lzmat.htm)
Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.
LZFSE - LZFSE compression library and command line tool
FiniteStateEntropy - New generation entropy codecs : Finite State Entropy and Huff0
tiny_jpeg.h - Single header lib for JPEG encoding. Public domain. C99. stb style.