snappy
A fast compressor/decompressor
A fast compressor/decompressor
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Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.
Summary
A fast compressor/decompressor
Last Updated
Jan 5, 2026 at 11:30
License
BSD-3-Clause AND CC-BY-3.0 AND MIT AND CC-BY AND Public Domain
Total Downloads
467.1K
Supported Platforms
Unsupported Platforms
GitHub Repository
https://github.com/google/snappyDocumentation
https://github.com/google/snappy/tree/master/docs