# Io Reference

Compression / LZO / LZO

The LZO object can be used to compress and uncompress data using the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) lossless data compression algorithm.

Example use;

    compressedData := LZO compress(uncompressedData)
    uncompressedData := LZO uncompress(compressedData)

compress(aSeq)

Returns a compressed version of aSeq.
uncompress(aSeq)

Returns a uncompressed version of aSeq.