ebiggers/libdeflate
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Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
7 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2022-01-26 · latest 2025-03-16
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…I think there are also faster zlib's around in C than the standard install one, such as https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate (EDIT: also mentioned elsethread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381768 by mananaysiempre) zlib itself…
comment by cb321 · 2025-03-16 · in Zlib-rs is faster than C -
…“complete buffer in, complete buffer out”. [1] https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/1486 [2] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
comment by mananaysiempre · 2025-03-16 · in Zlib-rs is faster than C -
…be closer to zlib. Perhaps their implementation of Zstandard is simpler than the reference one? [1] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate [2] https://github.com/intel/isa-l
comment by mananaysiempre · 2024-12-08 · in Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD -
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Ebiggers/libdeflate: Heavily optimized DEFLATE/zlib/gzip librarystory by xioxox · 2023-08-26 · 12 comments
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…instead? It doesn’t do streaming, but you shouldn’t really need that for PNG textures. [1] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-12-18 · in Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format -
Note that libdeflate has used essentially the same method since 2016 ( https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate/blob/v0.4/lib/adler32... ), though I recently switched it to use a slightly different method (…
comment by ebiggers · 2022-08-08 · in Computing Adler32 Checksums at 41 GB/s -
…course Zopfli[3], a glacially slow compressor that’s somewhat (and occasionally a lot) better. [1] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate [2] https://encode.su/threads/2482-libdeflate-a-new-optimized-DE... [3]…
comment by mananaysiempre · 2022-01-26 · in Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library