https://github.com/richox/libzling/tree/20140324
libzling supports compression levels (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) now. every levels compress better than gzip, and level=0 runs about 3 times faster than gzip!
my simple benchmark with enwik8:
Code:Tool Compressed Size Encode Decode zling d0 33391KB 2.54s 1.13s zling e1 32614KB 2.90s 1.10s zling d2 31732KB 3.39s 1.08s zling e3 31310KB 3.95s 1.05s zling e4 30862KB 6.02s 1.03s gzip 36520KB 8.13s 1.47s