Lz4 V1.8.3 | Win64

import lz4.frame compressed = lz4.frame.compress(b"hello world"*1000)

(approx. 578 KB) directly from the official release mirrors. : For C++ developers, LZ4 is available through the vcpkg dependency manager , maintained by Microsoft and the community. Why Win64? lz4 v1.8.3 win64

tar cvf - myfolder | lz4 -9 > myfolder.tar.lz4 import lz4

v1.9.4 is marginally faster (3-8%), but v1.8.3 is no slower in decompression for most workloads. Unless you need the latest features (like lz4 --list or --content-size ), v1.8.3 remains perfectly usable. myfolder.tar.lz4 v1.9.4 is marginally faster (3-8%)