Lua binding of google's snappy compressor.
lua-snappy$ make
That'all, enjoy snappy in lua.
Here is a sample usage in shell (lua-snappy_test.lua):
Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> require "snappy"
> compressed = snappy.compress("hello world!")
> indicator = snappy.validate_compressed_buffer(compressed)
> print(indicator)
true
> uncompressed = snappy.uncompress(compressed) -- snappy.decompress(compressed) also works.
> print(uncompressed)
hello world!
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