iczelia/bzip3
A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.
About the project
Bzip3 is a C compression utility and library positioned as a successor to BZip2 with higher compression ratios and speed, especially on text and code. It uses BWT, context mixing and LZP.
Useful for
- Compress source code archives to save disk space
- Benchmark bzip3 compression ratio against xz and zstd on your own corpus
- Embed libbz3 into an application to compress text data
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Why it’s trending
- 2 stars today.
- Hacker News: “bzip3” — 430 points, 6 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @hartwork (417 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 1,505
- Stars in a day
- 2
- Forks
- 63
- Issues and pull requests
- 186
- Watchers
- 21
- Language
- C
- License
- LGPL-3.0
- Latest release
- 1.5.4 · September 7, 2026
- Created
- May 1, 2022
- Last push
- September 9, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- bzip3430 points, September 7, 2026
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- September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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