CLS-lizard 22.03.16.rev.1

CLS-lizard - implementation of the Lizard algorithm (LZ5) for FreeArc

Lizard (formally LZ5) is a lossless compression algorithm with 4 modes of operation:

fastLZ4: -10...-19 compression levels are designed to achieve a higher decompression rate than LZ4, i.e. more than 2000 MB/s

LIZv1: -20...-29 compression levels are designed to achieve greater compression than LZ4 while retaining 75% of the decompression rate

fastLZ4 + Huffman: -30...-39 compression levels add Huffman coding to fastLZ4

LIZv1 + Huffman: compression levels -40...-49 give the best compression (at the zlib level and the first zstd/brotli levels) at a decompression rate of about 1000 MB/s

Options:

-l=<level> - compression ratio [10..49] (default 17)
-b=<block_size> - compression block size (default is 2mb)