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I've been hunting for a good decompressor to use in a low ram microcontroller, for instance, an ARM Cortex M0. I've read an article [1] on LZ4 decompression on the Cortex, but I couldn't understand what kind of memory requirements are needed.

I've yet to really understand what kind of footprint LZ4 uses, and if it's dependent on dictionary size used to compress. What if I have, say, 4KB that I could use to store in-place decompression. Is that related to the compression ratio?

[1] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...




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