ZX5-Kotlin

ZX5-Kotlin is a multi-thread implementation of the ZX5 data compressor in Kotlin.

Requirements

To run this compressor, you must have installed Java 8 or later.

Usage

To compress a file such as "Cobra.scr", use the command-line compressor as follows:

java -jar zx5.jar Cobra.scr

Java 8 memory allocation is limited to (at most) 1Gb by default. You can use parameter "-Xmx" to increase maximum memory allocation, for instance:

java -Xmx2G -jar zx5.jar Cobra.scr

This compressor uses 16 threads by default. You can use parameter "-p" to specify a different number of threads, for instance:

java -jar zx5.jar -p4 Cobra.scr

All other parameters work exactly like the original version. Check the official ZX5 page for further details.

License

The Kotlin implementation of ZX5 was authored by Einar Saukas and it's available under the "BSD-3" license.

Links

• ZX5 - The original version of ZX5, by the same author.

• ZX0-Kotlin - A similar multi-thread data compressor for ZX0 in Kotlin, by the same author.

• ZX0-Java - A similar multi-thread data compressor for ZX0 in Java, by the same author.