The standard references the use of the LZ77 (Lempil-Ziv, 1977) compression algorithm combined with Huffman encoding. The deflate standard is in contrast to lossy compression techniques that are often ...

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.

Other uses for the algorithm could be for super simple video compression, for applications where resource is tight and some low-effort bandwidth reduction would be beneficial.

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 ...