Lizard (formerly LZ5) is an efficient compressor with very fast decompression. It achieves compression ratio that is comparable to zip/zlib and zstd/brotli (at low and medium compression levels) at decompression speed of 1000 MB/s and faster.
compressionLevel : Recommended values are between 4 and 9, although any value between 0 and 16 will work.
0 means "use default value" (see lz5hc.c).
Values >16 behave the same as 16.
However the LZ5HC_MAX_CLEVEL is defined as 15
Also:
* Default value is 14, for 16KB, which nicely fits into Intel x86 L1 cache
*/
#define LZ5_MEMORY_USAGE 20
The headers say:
However the LZ5HC_MAX_CLEVEL is defined as 15
Also:
it says default is 14 but defined as 20