LZ4 1.11 Introduces Multi-Threaded Compression For liblz4, Other Performance Gains

LZ4 1.11 brings multi-threaded compression support to the liblz4 library itself, not just the command-line tool. A new configurable field lets applications control the number of worker threads when using liblz4, improving performance on multi-core CPUs. The project's own testing on an AMD EPYC server showed promising results. The lz4 command line tool also gains a '--memory' option to cap multi-threaded compression within a memory budget, alongside other general performance improvements over LZ4 1.10.

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