Snappy
A fast compressor/decompressor (by google)
zlib-ng
zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems. (by zlib-ng)
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| Snappy | zlib-ng | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 5,203 | 1,072 | |
| 1.1% | 3.4% | |
| 4.4 | 9.6 | |
| 8 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | zlib License |
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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.
Snappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Snappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-29.
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How to store item info?
Just compress it! Of course if you will you ZIP, players will able to just open this zip file and change whatever they want. But you can use less popular compression algorithms which are not supported by default Windows File Explorer. Snappy for example.
- What's the best way to compress strings?
zlib-ng
Posts with mentions or reviews of zlib-ng.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.
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Re: Zlib memory corruption on deflate (i.e. compress)
There are already active zlib forks (e.g. https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng), the problem is with having people move to them. It takes a lot of effort to move mindshare from the original version to a fork, there's some historical examples of it happening, but not a ton.
- Zlib – a spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library
- Release 2.0.0 - First stable release · zlib-ng/zlib-ng
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Snappy and zlib-ng you can also consider the following projects:
zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
brotli - Brotli compression format
LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases
Minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.
uzlib - Radically unbloated DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression/decompression library. Can decompress any gzip/zlib data, and offers simplified compressor which produces gzip-compatible output, while requiring much less resources (and providing less compression ratio of course).
xxHash - Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm