lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

[Ivan Voras]

2008/11/26 Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org>:

> There's also something called "lzop", though I'm not
> yet sure what exactly that is.

lzop is the LZO archiver - created for high-speed compression, not
compression efficiency. Unfortunately, LZO is GPL :(

But that reminds me - while you're adding compression formats, you
might add lzf (http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html) which is a
very high-speed compressor (again, no emphasis on efficiency), BSDL,
implemented in something like 500 lines of C :)

"...Very fast compression speeds, rivaling a straight copy loop,
especially for decompression which is basically at (unoptimized)
memcpy-speed"