A while back I started working on a project called Squash, and today I’m pleased to announce the first release, version 0.5. Squash is an abstraction layer for general-purpose data compression (zlib, LZMA, LZ4, etc.). It is based on dynamically loaded plugins, and there are a lot of them (currently 25 plugins to support 42 … Continue reading "Squash 0.5 and the Squash Benchmark"