LZHAM compression

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LZHAM compression

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LZHAM is a compression algorithm/library which is similar to LZMA but much faster in decompression.

From my tests it is indeed a lot faster in decompression but will always result in larger files than LZMA. It's useful if you need something faster than LZMA in decompression but still want to maintain a very good compression ratio.

https://github.com/richgel999/lzham_codec

I compiled a static lib for Windows and made a PB include to use it in PureBasic.
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