--- title: FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression | daily.dev description: FC8 is a fast compression scheme designed for 68K CPUs, with a new decompressor that achieves 25% the speed of optimized memcpy of uncompressed data. It is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression | daily.dev og:description: FC8 is a fast compression scheme designed for 68K CPUs, with a new decompressor that achieves 25% the speed of optimized memcpy of uncompressed data. It is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZHrkzqnl0.png og:image:alt: FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FC8 is a fast compression scheme designed for 68K CPUs, with a new decompressor that achieves 25% the speed of optimized memcpy of uncompressed data. It is based on the LZ77 compression scheme and aims to be easily portable to other classic computers and microcontrollers. The author also discusses the possibility of on-the-fly decompression and trade-offs between compression compactness and decompression speed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#compression](https://daily.dev/tags/compression) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0"},"datePublished":"2024-04-29T20:53:21.941Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:27:14.707Z","description":"FC8 is a fast compression scheme designed for 68K CPUs, with a new decompressor that achieves 25% the speed of optimized memcpy of uncompressed data. It is...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c64b4cab493324f421f93af6420e3276?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c64b4cab493324f421f93af6420e3276?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/fc8-faster-68k-decompression-zhrkzqnl0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"compression","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression"}]} ```