- **Zstd**, short for Zstandard, is a fast lossless compression algorithm,
+ __Zstandard__, or `zstd` as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm,
targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios.
-It is provided as an open-source BSD-licensed **C** library.
+It is provided as an open-source BSD-licensed **C** library,
+and a command line utility producing and decoding `.zst` compressed files.
For other programming languages,
you can consult a list of known ports on [Zstandard homepage](http://www.zstd.net/#other-languages).
[Silesia compression corpus]: http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/~sdeor/index.php?page=silesia
-|Name | Ratio | C.speed | D.speed |
-|-----------------|-------|--------:|--------:|
-| | | MB/s | MB/s |
-|**zstd 0.8.2 -1**|**2.877**|**330**| **940** |
-| [zlib] 1.2.8 -1 | 2.730 | 95 | 360 |
-| brotli 0.4 -0 | 2.708 | 320 | 375 |
-| QuickLZ 1.5 | 2.237 | 510 | 605 |
-| LZO 2.09 | 2.106 | 610 | 870 |
-| [LZ4] r131 | 2.101 | 620 | 3100 |
-| Snappy 1.1.3 | 2.091 | 480 | 1600 |
-| LZF 3.6 | 2.077 | 375 | 790 |
+| Name | Ratio | C.speed | D.speed |
+|-------------------------|-------|--------:|--------:|
+| | | MB/s | MB/s |
+|**zstd 0.8.2 -1** |**2.877**| **330** | **940** |
+| [zlib] 1.2.8 deflate -1 | 2.730 | 95 | 360 |
+| brotli 0.4 -0 | 2.708 | 320 | 375 |
+| QuickLZ 1.5 | 2.237 | 510 | 605 |
+| LZO 2.09 | 2.106 | 610 | 870 |
+| [LZ4] r131 | 2.101 | 620 | 3100 |
+| Snappy 1.1.3 | 2.091 | 480 | 1600 |
+| LZF 3.6 | 2.077 | 375 | 790 |
[zlib]:http://www.zlib.net/
[LZ4]: http://www.lz4.org/