Snappy
I generally use Compress::LZF as "an extremely fast (not that much slower than a pure memcpy) compression algorithm. It is ideal for applications where you want to save some space but not at the cost of speed".
Google recently released Snappy, previously known as Zippy, which "aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression" and is used in Bigtable.
And luckily gray recently released Compress::Snappy.
Whe…