Intel IPP provides optimized implementations of the common data compression algorithms, including the BZIP2*, ZLIB*, LZO*, and a new LZ4* function, as “drop-in” replacements for the original ...

Lossless compression technology that continues to the present day is based on this paper, and without the algorithm 'LZ77' published in the paper, the format of GIF or TIFF might not have been born.