# misa77

8 Hacker News commenters recommended misa77 and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Compression codec that decompresses faster than LZ4 at comparable or better ratios. Critics note slow compression and no robustness to corrupted data.

## Why people recommend it

- Decompresses faster than LZ4 (2 comments): "Almost double the decompression speed, *and* a higher compression ratio than LZ4?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924426)) "lz4's decompression speed was far slower than misa77 and zxc" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924921))
- Nearly as fast as unsafe version (2 comments): "is only ~5% slower than the current unsafe version" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925519)) "it's nearly as performant as the unsafe one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960936))
- Praised as promising, useful work (3 comments): "Anyway good work, there is probably a need for that." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925428)) "Nice results, I will keep a watch on this!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924298)) "This looks awesome for boot firmware." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925308))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Zstandard (zstd)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zstd.md): 111 recommend
- [Brotli](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brotli.md): 24 recommend
- [gzip](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gzip.md): 23 recommend
- [tar](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tar.md): 19 recommend
- [NNCP](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nncp.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "misa77", https://hackerapproved.com/p/misa77/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).