compress
Collection of compression related Go packages. (by dsnet)
banzai
banzai: pure rust bzip2 encoder (by jgbyrne)
| compress | banzai | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | |
| 396 | 29 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.1 | 10.0 | |
| 9 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Go | Rust | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
compress
Posts with mentions or reviews of compress.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
- Bzip2 Format Specification [pdf]
- BZIP2: Format Specification [pdf]
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Working with bzip2. The stdlib compress/bzip2 is not quite cutting it.
The bzip2 file format is described here: https://github.com/dsnet/compress/blob/master/doc/bzip2-format.pdf
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Faster Compression with Snappy's S2 Extension
github.com/dsnet/compress/bzip2 is a little bit faster than shelling out to "bzip2 -dc":
banzai
Posts with mentions or reviews of banzai.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-10.
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Bzip2 Format Specification [pdf]
This is one of the most useful documents on the web regarding bzip2 implementation. I wrote a bzip2 encoder in Rust [1] a couple of years ago and it would have been an uphill struggle without Joe Tsai's work.
[1] https://github.com/jgbyrne/banzai/
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What's everyone working on this week (37/2022)?
banzai (crates.io)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing compress and banzai you can also consider the following projects:
pbzip2 - parallel bzip2 decompressor
igrep - Interactive Grep
caddy-brotli - Brotli compression encoder for Caddy
htree - Making gifs in Rust
gzipped - Replacement for golang http.FileServer which supports precompressed static assets.
BoilR - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library
xz - Pure golang package for reading and writing xz-compressed files
bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.