Top 4 C compression-algorithm Projects

minlzma

1 340 1.8 C

The Minimal LZMA (minlzma) project aims to provide a minimalistic, cross-platform, highly commented, standards-compliant C library (minlzlib) for decompressing LZMA2-encapsulated compressed data in LZMA format within an XZ container, as can be generated with Python 3.6, 7-zip, and xzutils
lzav

1 290 7.9 C

Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (inline C/C++) 460+MB/s compress, 2500+MB/s decompress, ratio% better than LZ4, Snappy, and Zstd@-1

Project mention: LZAV – Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm (In C) | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-19

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apultra

1 96 3.3 C

Free open-source compressor for apLib with 5-7% better ratios
salvador

1 58 2.9 C

A free, open-source compressor for the ZX0 format

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).