lzop

{{Short description|Data compression utility}}

{{Notability|Products|date=August 2011}}{{lowercase|title=lzop}}

{{Infobox software

| name = lzop

| developer = Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer

| released = {{Start date and age|1997|8|10}}

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|P348|P548=Q2804309}} | latest release date = {{Start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}|df=yes}}

| operating_system = Cross-platform

| genre = data compression

| license = GPL

| website = {{URL|www.lzop.org}}

}}

lzop is a free software file compression tool which implements the LZO algorithm and is licensed under the GPL.

Aimed at being very fast, lzop produces files slightly larger than gzip while only requiring a tenth of the CPU use and only slightly higher memory utilization.{{Cite web|url=http://catchchallenger.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO|title=Quick Benchmark: Gzip vs Bzip2 vs LZMA vs XZ vs LZ4 vs LZO - CatchChallenger wiki|website=catchchallenger.first-world.info|access-date=2016-07-05}} lzop is one of the fastest compressors available,{{Cite web |url=http://compression.ca/act/act-summary.html |title=ACT - Summary of Winners |access-date=2010-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503085319/http://compression.ca/act/act-summary.html |archive-date=2010-05-03 |url-status=dead }} a close second to lz4.