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High-performance asymmetric lossless compression library. Version 0.12.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-18.

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overview

Package summary

High-performance asymmetric lossless compression library

Commands and aliases

  • zxc

history

Project history and usage

ZXC is a young asymmetric lossless compression library built around write-once/read-many workloads: spend more effort while compressing so decompression is extremely fast at runtime.

Project history

The public repository starts in late 2025 and credits Bertrand Lebonnois and contributors. The README positions ZXC as a C library with official Rust, Python, Node.js, and Go bindings, hand-tuned SIMD paths, a seekable format, and a design focused on modern ARM and x86 pipelines.

Adoption history

Because ZXC is new, its adoption history is mostly early ecosystem seeding rather than long-term production lineage. The project highlights inclusion in lzbench and TurboBench benchmark suites, plus availability through C/C++ package ecosystems and language-specific bindings, as evidence that it is being made easy to test against existing codecs.

How it is used

ZXC targets assets and payloads compressed once and read many times: game assets, app bundles, firmware updates, content delivery, and embedded data. The CLI compresses and decompresses files, while the C API and language bindings let applications embed the codec directly.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, ZXC is interesting less as a mature standard and more as a packaged experiment in codec trade-offs. It competes with the LZ4/Snappy/Zstd mental model by making decompression throughput and ratio at read time the headline package value.

Timeline

  • 2025-12: Public git history begins and early 0.1.x releases appear.
  • 2026-02: 0.6.0-era changes emphasize compression, ratio, and data-integrity improvements.
  • 2026-06: 0.12.0-era release work extends signed release provenance and packaging polish.

Related projects

  • LZ4 and LZ4HC: the speed-oriented family ZXC benchmarks against most directly.
  • Zstd: the denser general-purpose codec ZXC contrasts with in its design discussion.
  • lzbench and TurboBench: benchmark suites used to compare ZXC with other codecs.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for zxc. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
zxccliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version0.12.0
manager updated2026-06-18
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.12.0

https://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:zxc
Version0.12.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/zxc
Homepagehttps://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc
Repositoryhttps://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc
Upstream docshttps://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc#readme
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://github.com/hellobertrand/zxc/archive/refs/tags/v0.12.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-18T10:42:48Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciescmake
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namezxc
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • cmakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • hdtShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, data.
  • liblzfShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compression, data.

source trail

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This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment