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Compression

lzop – file compressor favoring speed over compression ratio

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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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Compression

pigz – parallel implementation of gzip

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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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Compression

Brotli – generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data.

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Compression

Zstandard – fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Zstandard is a fast compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios.

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Compression

LZ4 – lossless data compression algorithm focused on compression and decompression speed

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

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

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

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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pngcrush – optimizer for PNG files

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

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

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

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

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

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

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

pngquant is a command-line utility and a library for lossy compression of PNG images.

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