OK, a new version is out! This one features a heavily improved match finder (HC5), plus some additional parsing tricks.
http://encode.su/balz/index.htm
Will made some break in development, after, I'm planning to do some serious changes in BALZ, just my fingers crossed around SS/Optimal Parsing. In addition, I recalled my successful LZP-driven compressor QUAD v1.04a. Just test it and see how modern LZP can perform. So I'm looking into LZP side also.![]()