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# lz4-compression
Pure rust implementation of lz4 compression and decompression.
This is based on [redox-os' lz4 compression](https://github.com/redox-os/tfs/tree/master/lz4),
but has been reworked to be actually usable as a library crate.
(The [redox-os lz4 crate](https://crates.io/crates/lz4-compress)
does not re-export the error types and does not merge pull requests)
Usage:
```rust
use lz4_compression::prelude::{ decompress, compress };
fn main(){
let uncompressed_data: &[u8] = b"Hello world, what's up?";
let compressed_data = compress(uncompressed_data);
let decompressed_data = decompress(&compressed_data).unwrap();
assert_eq!(uncompressed_data, decompressed_data.as_slice());
}
```