I've spent the last few months working on this codec.
It has the following characteristics:
- SOTA decompression throughput in its ratio class
- Decent ratios (comparable to LZ4 at high effort levels)
- Slow compression
Results on the tarred Silesia corpus on Intel x86-64 follow:
codec decode ratio encode
misa77 -0 5219 MB/s 42.64% 54.5 MB/s
misa77 -1 4274 MB/s 39.65% 51.2 MB/s
lz4 2505 MB/s 47.59% 371 MB/s
lz4hc -12 2531 MB/s 36.45% 7.31 MB/s
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