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OpenZL

OpenZLFormat-aware lossless compression library and tools for generating specialized compressors with a universal decompressor.
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I / Function

Format-aware lossless compression library and tools for generating specialized compressors with a universal decompressor.

Create specialized compressors from descriptions of structured data formats. OpenZL supplies a core library and tools that generate compressors compatible with a single universal decompressor. Developers can integrate these components into processing pipelines for specialized datasets, using the documented C and C++ build workflow and accompanying compression tools.

OpenZL official README · Reviewed 2026-10-13

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Awesome Open* · Field recordOpenZLOP-48481418 · Folio 554Domain: Storage & File Management
  1. 01 / Feature noteFormat-specific compressors

    Generate a specialized compressor from a description of the data format.

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  2. 02 / Feature noteShared decompressor

    Decode the outputs of generated compressors with a single universal decompressor.

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II / Repository record

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Repository created

2025-09-30

Repository push

2026-11-04

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IV / Release record

GitHub release

v0.3.0

Published 2026-09-29

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