Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) lossless data compressor based on the lzlib compression library.
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lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility
lbzip2 integrates well with tar. Even on single-core computers, lbzip2 can speed up archiving in combination with tar.
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Lrzip – Long Range ZIP
Long Range Zip (Lrzip) is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files.
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BZip3 – spiritual successor to BZip2
BZip3 bills itself as a “better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2”.
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pbzip2 – parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines.
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bzip2 – high-quality data compressor
bzip2 is a high-quality data compressor. This utility typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques.
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gzip – single-file/stream lossless data compression utility
gzip provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian.
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pixz – parallel, indexed xz compressor
pixz is a parallel, indexed xz compressor. pixz produces a collection of smaller blocks which makes random access to the original data possible.
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lzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio
lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services.
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pigz – parallel implementation of gzip
pigz is a fully functional replacement for gzip that uses multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
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Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.
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Zstandard – fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios
Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.
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LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed
LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed > 500 MB/s per core (>0.15 Bytes/cycle).
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jpegoptim – optimize JPEG files
jpegoptim is a utility to optimize jpeg files. Both lossless and lossy optimization are available from this free and open source tool.
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oxipng – multithreaded PNG optimizer
Oxipng is a multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer (CLI and library).
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pngcrush – optimizer for PNG files
Pngcrush is a free and open source optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. It is a command-line tool.
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zopflipng – PNG optimisation tool using zopfli
Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression.
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OptiPNG – advanced PNG optimizer
OptiPNG optimizes PNG files, i.e. reduce their size to a minimum, without losing semantic information.
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pngquant – command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images
pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.
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Lepton – image compression tool and file format
Lepton is a tool and file format for losslessly compressing JPEGs by an average of 22%.
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