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Turbosqueeze Realtime Multi-Threaded Compression Aims To Compete With Zstd, Snappy

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 27 October 2025 at 06:40 AM EDT. 28 Comments
Turbosqueeze 1.0 was announced today as a new real-time, multi-threaded compression solution designed for C/C++ programs and aiming to compete with the likes of Zstd, LZ4, and Snappy compression.

Turbosqueeze is a new MIT-licensed multi-threaded compression library aiming for competitive performance to the more established compression algorithms/implementations. Turbosqueeze aims to provide real-time multi-threaded compression, async job scheduling, and more.

Benchmarks from the project show Turbosqueeze delivering around 305 MB/s compression performance and 2503 MB/s decompression performance compared to Zstd level 3 at 200 MB/s compression and 1014MB/s decompression. But Zstd enjoying significantly better compression, even if dropping down to level 1 where it then outperforms Turbosqueeze in compression and decompression.

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Those wanting to learn more about this Turbosqueeze open-source multi-threaded compression solution can do so at GitHub.

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