LZSS

File Format
Name	LZSS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression LZSS

The LZSS (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski) format is a data compression format which improves on the LZ77 compression format. The compression works by pointing an end point and a final point in a dictionary back to the original data.

See also

• LZSS (Haruhiko Okumura)

Sources

• CULZSS: LZSS Lossless Data Compression on CUDA paper by Adnan Ozsoy & Martin Swany
• Binary Essence
• Wikipedia: Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski