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high speed zlib port to javascript, works in browser & node.js

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2014-04-20 · latest 2025-03-12

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  1. Looks like it depends on https://github.com/nodeca/pako for the zlib compression. > Almost as fast in modern JS engines as C implementation (see benchmarks). Impressive, although "almost" is doing some heavy lifting there. > deflate-pako x…
    comment by Retr0id · 2025-03-12 · in Fast-PNG: PNG image decoder and encoder
  2. It’s actually compressed. It uses https://github.com/nodeca/pako and then applies base64. Try entering hundreds of "a" and you’ll see that the base64 doesn’t really get much longer.
    comment by skipnup · 2024-05-28 · in Notepad Tab
  3. …JavaScript). This helps you get more data in before you reach the browser limit for URL length. [0] https://github.com/nodeca/pako
    comment by eatonphil · 2022-05-12 · in Storing State in the URL
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    Pako: High speed zlib port to JavaScript, works in browser and Node.js
    story by eatonphil · 2021-06-17 · 0 comments
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    Pako: A high speed zlib port to JavaScript
    story by af3d · 2020-11-21 · 0 comments
  6. …because we've recently updated our inflate/deflate implementation to use the much faster Pako, https://github.com/nodeca/pako
    comment by stu_k · 2014-04-20 · in JSZip: Create, read and edit .zip files with JavaScript