Description:

bcjcffi 0.5.1

In data compression, BCJ, short for Branch-Call-Jump, refers to a technique that improves the compression of
machine code of executable binaries by replacing relative branch addresses with absolute ones.
This allows a LZMA compressor to identify duplicate targets and archive higher compression rate.
BCJ is used in 7-zip compression utility as default filter for executable binaries.
bcj-cffi is a python bindings with BCJ implementation by C language.
The C codes are derived from p7zip, portable 7-zip implementation.
bcj-cffi support Intel/Amd x86/x86_64, Arm/Arm64, ArmThumb, Sparc, PPC, and IA64.

Development status
A development status is considered as Beta state.


Installation
As usual, you can install bcj-cffi using python standard pip command.
pip install bcj-cffi


License

Copyright (C) 2020,2021 Hiroshi Miura
7-Zip Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov
LZMA SDK Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301 USA

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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