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Modded 7zip For Lz4 -

mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd: 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast ... - GitHub

If you need LZ4 but hate modding:

If you use 7-Zip for daily archiving but find the standard compression methods too slow for large data sets, you might want to look into the 7-Zip ZS (Zstandard) modded 7zip for lz4

You might ask: If LZ4 is open source, why isn't it in 7-Zip? mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd: 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast

| Scenario | Algorithm Recommendation | Why? | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 7z (LZMA2) | Best compression ratio. Saves disk space. CPU usage is high. | | Software Distribution | zstd | Balance of speed and ratio. Becoming the new industry standard. | | Real-time Backup | LZ4 | This is the use case. LZ4 is incredibly fast. It is designed so that disk I/O is the bottleneck, not the CPU. | | Memory Constrained | LZ4 | Uses very little memory compared to LZMA2. | | | :--- | :--- | :--- |