LZ4 and LZ4 HC Compression Request

[schmitmd]

LZ4 and LZ4 HC are a couple of compression algorithms similar to lzo, lzma, etc. They boast some cool features and if it's not too much trouble, I'd like to see Cyphertite support them someday.

[dajohi]

Can you offer some specifics on the benefits it would bring to Cyphertite?

[schmitmd]

The end-user may or may not notice (since the main bottleneck is bandwidth as opposed to compression), but the basic idea is simply faster/more efficient compression/decompression.

https://code.google.com/p/lz4/

[SirHumphreyAppleby]

Related to this, I would like to request an option to disable compression. The data I am storing is almost exclusively binary, and while current compression techniques aren't slow, it's an unnecessary step.

[csmiken]

This is a great suggestion. I will make sure it is on the radar for a future release.