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pithy

pithys roots can be traced back to Googles snappy compression library, but has diverged quite a bit.

pithy can not read or write the snappy compression format, and vice versa.

Write the README.md :).

Benchmarks were performed on an iPhone 4 (not S) and compiled with clang version 3.0 using -Os.
Compression and decompression speed numbers are in megabytes per second.
The files used are from the snappy distributions test suite.
zlib 1 and zlib 6 correspond to the zlib tunable compression effort, with 1 being fastest, and 6 being the default.
pithy 0 and pithy 2 correspond to the pithy tunable compression effort.

Name	Uncompressed	pithy 0	pithy 2	snappy	lzf	lzo	zlib 1	zlib 6
alice29.txt	152089	93270	87767	90965	82985	83568	65148	54416
asyoulik.txt	125179	83039	78170	80207	72081	73849	56809	48909
baddata1.snappy	27512	27521	27521	26675	26228	26491	23151	22953
baddata2.snappy	27483	27495	27495	26724	26272	26531	23214	23035
baddata3.snappy	28384	28346	28346	27476	27105	27388	23927	23730
cp.html	24603	12398	11990	11838	11869	11677	9046	7973
fields.c	11150	4960	4790	4728	4667	4680	3665	3134
geo.protodata	118588	19984	19524	27459	27748	20170	18845	15143
grammar.lsp	3721	1859	1839	1800	1768	1783	1344	1234
house.jpg	126958	126846	126843	126803	130003	127169	126488	126525
html	102400	21725	21077	24140	22534	21059	17049	13711
html_x_4	409600	21753	21105	96472	89962	82730	67470	53379
kennedy.xls	1029744	427736	425992	425735	402525	359590	242311	204004
kppkn.gtb	184320	73768	68287	70535	75486	72623	49877	38763
lcet10.txt	426754	247515	230250	243710	225007	223028	174142	144916
mapreduce-osdi-1.pdf	94330	79281	79331	77477	79684	77241	76414	74940
plrabn12.txt	481861	340325	317582	329339	290030	297444	228901	195273
ptt5	513216	87776	83676	93455	80756	86277	65571	56477
sum	38240	19018	18728	19837	20274	17609	14130	13002
urls.10K	702087	343976	316942	357267	350981	312748	253275	222625
xargs.1	4227	2603	2545	2509	2441	2451	1864	1748

Name	pithy 0	pithy 2	snappy	lzf	lzo	zlib 1	zlib 6
alice29.txt	34.31	30.48	26.92	18.46	27.91	5.01	1.36
asyoulik.txt	32.67	29.09	25.63	17.52	25.91	4.60	1.24
baddata1.snappy	332.22	236.41	37.59	12.61	13.20	3.33	2.79
baddata2.snappy	287.97	213.15	40.39	12.58	13.12	3.45	2.87
baddata3.snappy	287.98	213.21	34.57	12.57	13.03	3.38	2.82
cp.html	44.02	37.66	29.81	22.54	29.00	6.32	3.36
fields.c	43.06	35.57	26.45	25.68	39.53	6.03	3.56
geo.protodata	90.33	82.31	63.04	37.91	60.77	12.47	5.42
grammar.lsp	35.15	33.17	23.19	24.99	36.98	3.73	2.93
house.jpg	712.25	450.11	209.48	11.53	10.41	2.67	2.46
html	77.14	69.61	58.09	41.57	57.68	11.02	4.65
html_x_4	171.03	131.75	56.00	37.63	51.18	11.18	4.36
kennedy.xls	45.41	37.88	36.68	34.34	40.08	7.97	1.76
kppkn.gtb	47.66	42.32	37.38	31.08	40.32	6.80	1.23
lcet10.txt	33.98	29.69	27.15	17.84	23.87	4.92	1.37
mapreduce-osdi-1.pdf	165.96	147.48	90.87	14.25	13.31	3.47	2.91
plrabn12.txt	29.28	24.61	22.84	15.80	20.64	4.14	1.03
ptt5	80.67	70.76	68.08	41.08	49.54	11.46	3.53
sum	44.91	38.59	30.31	22.71	32.02	5.93	1.97
urls.10K	39.15	31.68	31.11	20.44	23.31	5.71	2.47
xargs.1	33.60	25.68	19.67	20.26	30.31	3.77	2.99

Name	pithy 0	pithy 2	snappy	lzf	lzo	zlib 1	zlib 6
alice29.txt	115.76	114.84	48.92	69.53	68.74	28.71	33.94
asyoulik.txt	112.63	110.95	47.17	66.92	65.92	27.99	31.66
baddata1.snappy	1544.53	1642.51	228.20	114.57	143.39	20.58	21.42
baddata2.snappy	1093.85	1049.47	251.99	115.96	144.84	20.60	20.77
baddata3.snappy	1355.65	1355.65	213.21	114.71	143.99	20.19	21.67
cp.html	172.58	172.58	76.19	74.72	100.70	30.83	32.77
fields.c	154.19	156.49	67.73	81.80	100.34	33.76	37.18
geo.protodata	340.65	343.80	135.29	150.60	156.64	54.24	58.54
grammar.lsp	154.64	154.24	72.43	78.96	104.45	22.32	23.19
house.jpg	1985.66	897.23	1017.70	230.62	229.32	27.60	36.28
html	279.83	280.60	115.30	130.03	136.39	50.97	55.11
html_x_4	832.94	847.38	108.72	122.60	129.39	46.41	50.31
kennedy.xls	147.34	147.61	52.08	56.72	95.54	32.96	36.43
kppkn.gtb	132.47	115.95	56.02	85.62	84.27	34.07	41.23
lcet10.txt	109.02	107.61	45.58	60.34	61.26	27.58	30.86
mapreduce-osdi-1.pdf	478.53	463.82	257.78	182.13	185.10	29.29	30.33
plrabn12.txt	94.13	90.73	37.60	55.46	52.74	23.68	26.55
ptt5	241.46	182.63	116.23	131.32	133.36	49.16	52.61
sum	162.12	147.64	67.91	74.89	98.04	29.18	33.77
urls.10K	156.08	153.04	68.10	62.93	77.84	29.52	31.03
xargs.1	149.63	144.20	63.98	72.03	93.80	22.03	23.30