It was a long-standing "stable" release used in many enterprise environments. Compatibility:
For those looking to integrate LZ4 into Windows projects, the library is easily accessible via the vcpkg dependency manager or directly from the official LZ4 GitHub lz4 v1.8.3 win64
LZ4 is often the default compression algorithm in databases for WAL (Write-Ahead Log) and SSTable compression. Using v1.8.3 ensures compatibility with older production clusters that haven't upgraded their client libraries. It was a long-standing "stable" release used in
To extract:
// Note for v1.8.3: LZ4_compress_HC requires explicit stack memory. int compressedSize = LZ4_compress_HC(src, dst, srcSize, dstCapacity, 9); lz4 v1.8.3 win64