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.
A development status is considered as Beta state.
As usual, you can install bcj-cffi using python standard pip command.
pip install bcj-cffiAlternatively, you can use conda:
conda install -c conda-forge bcj-cffi- 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
