If you're interested in results, it's also worth reading the follow-up which show that on equal footings LZSSE8 is a more general choice than LZSSE2 which works

If you're interested in results, it's also worth reading the follow-up which show that on equal footings LZSSE8 is a more general choice than LZSSE2 which works well on text and in high compression scenarios (http://conorstokes.github.io/compression/2016/02/24/compressor-improvements-and-lzsse2-vs-lzsse8 http://conorstokes.github.io/compression/2016/02/24/compress...).