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+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, valgrind }:
+
+let version = "128"; in
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "lz4-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    sha256 = "00jrnic2jddj81av8jjipf4rdkx6x6cdf8zpsz3mp5kbmqzd0h9a";
+    rev = "r${version}";
+    repo = "lz4";
+    owner = "Cyan4973";
+  };
+
+  # valgrind is required only by `make test`
+  buildInputs = [ valgrind ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  makeFlags = "PREFIX=$(out)";
+
+  doCheck = true;
+  checkTarget = "test";
+  checkFlags = "-j1"; # required since version 128
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Extremely fast compression algorithm";
+    longDescription = ''
+      Very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed
+      at 400 MB/s per core, with near-linear scalability for multi-threaded
+      applications. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in
+      multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on
+      multi-core systems.
+    '';
+    homepage = https://code.google.com/p/lz4/;
+    license = with licenses; [ bsd2 gpl2Plus ];
+    platforms = with platforms; linux;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nckx ];
+  };
+}