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Erlz is a project mainly written in C and ERLANG, it's free.

Erlang wrapper for the fastlz (LZO-like) data compression library

  • What is erlz? erlz is an Erlang wrapper around the FastLZ (http://www.fastlz.org) compression library. It's similar but not exactly the same as LZO compression. Both FastLZ and LZO focus on moderate compression with excellent decompression speed. This makes it suitable for high-volume uses where even moderate compression is useful.

  • How do I build it? Simply check out the sources and type 'make'. erlz requires Erlang (developed against R13B04 but should also work against R14).

  • Where are the docs? erlz has a very minimal API. Use erlz:compress/1 to compress data and erlz:decompress/1 to decompress.

  • What license does erlz use? erlz is licensed under the Apache2 license. FastLZ is distributed under the MIT license.