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Introduction

The lzma egg provides a simple wrapper around the C library liblzma, which in turn provides access to the excellent Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm.

Two functions are provided, which simply compress or decompress a buffer represented as a Chicken blob object.

Examples

Examples:
(blob->string (lzma:decompress (lzma:compress (string->blob "Hello, World!"))))
=>
"Hello, World!"
(blob-size (lzma:compress (string->blob "Hello, World!")))
=>
32
(blob-size (lzma:compress (string->blob "Hello, World! Hello, World! Hello, World!")))
=>
36

Library functions

[procedure] (lzma:compress BLOB) => BLOB

Given a blob, returns a blob that's hopefully smaller, and contains all the entropy of the original blob.

[procedure] (lzma:decompress BLOB) => BLOB

Given a blob returned by lzma:compress, returns the original blob.

Authors

Alaric B. Snell-Pym

License

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Requirements

You'll need liblzma installed. Source of this can be had from http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/misc/lzmalib-0.0.1.tar.gz.

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