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### smaz

There’s another good small string compressor out there: [**smaz**](https://github.com/antirez/**smaz**). **smaz** seems to be dictionary based, while **shoco** is an entropy encoder. As a result, **smaz** will often do better than **shoco** when compressing common english terms. However, **shoco** typically beats **smaz** for more obscure input, as long as it’s ASCII. **smaz** may enlarge your string for uncommon words (like numbers), **shoco** will never do that for ASCII strings.
There’s another good small string compressor out there: [**smaz**](https://github.com/antirez/smaz). **smaz** seems to be dictionary based, while **shoco** is an entropy encoder. As a result, **smaz** will often do better than **shoco** when compressing common english terms. However, **shoco** typically beats **smaz** for more obscure input, as long as it’s ASCII. **smaz** may enlarge your string for uncommon words (like numbers), **shoco** will never do that for ASCII strings.

Performance-wise, **shoco** is typically faster by at least a factor of 2. As an example, compressing and decompressing all words in `/usr/dict/share/words` with **smaz** takes around 0.325s on my computer and compresses on average by 28%, while **shoco** has a compression average of 33% (with the standard model; an optimized model will be even better) and takes around 0.145s. **shoco** is _especially_ fast at decompression.

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