zlib VS hs-zstd

Compare zlib vs hs-zstd and see what are their differences.

zlib

Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats (by haskell)

hs-zstd

Bindings to the Zstandard library to make it usable from the Haskell programming language. (by luispedro)
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zlib hs-zstd
1 1
35 4
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8.2 0.0
9 days ago over 1 year ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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zlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of zlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

hs-zstd

Posts with mentions or reviews of hs-zstd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-26.
  • Using C libraries in Haskell with Cabal
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 26 Jul 2022
    It kinda depends on how easy it is to build the C library, but assuming you can basically just list the files to point the C compiler at, yeah, it's not that hard to just include the C library in your project itself. The zstd library on Hackage does this (source on Github).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zlib and hs-zstd you can also consider the following projects:

binary-serialise-cbor - Binary serialisation in the CBOR format

zip-conduit - Working with zip archives via conduits.

json-encoder - A single-pass JSON encoder with a declarative DSL

zip - Efficient library for manipulating zip archives

lz4 - Haskell bindings to lz4

snappy - Fast Haskell bindings to Google's Snappy compression library

activitystreams-aeson - Basic library for working with Activity Streams

mime - A Haskell MIME library

tar - Reading, writing and manipulating ".tar" archive files.

zlib-bindings - Low-level wrapper around the zlib library

simple-tar - A very simple tar archive processing library

lzip - Lzip compression / Lzlib bindings