FPC is a very fast and effective lossless compressor/decompressor for IEEE 754 64-bit double-precision floating-point data.
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The source code in file fpc.c can be compiled into an executable called fpc as follows:
gcc -O3 fpc.c -o
fpc
The executable compresses/decompresses data with level x from the standard input and writes the result to the standard output. x is a positive integer that specifies the internal table size (2x+4 bytes). Larger x typically result in better compression ratios but slower processing.
To compress the file file.in with level 20 and store the result in a file
called file.fpc, enter:
./fpc 20 < file.in
> file.fpc
To decompress the file file.fpc and store the result in file file.out,
enter:
./fpc < file.fpc
> file.out
Note that the raw data file has to be a multiple of 8 bytes long and should contain nothing but binary double-precision values. Only little-endian systems are currently supported. FPC works particularly well on 64-bit machines and on CPUs with at least 16 general-purpose integer registers.
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Last update: 23 January 2009