zlib-ng vs Minizip-ng

zlib-ng

zlib replacement with optimizations for "next generation" systems. (by zlib-ng)

#Compression #Library #Deflate #inflate #Zlib #C #optimized #zlib-replacement #zlib-ng #zlib-license

Minizip-ng

Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution. (by nmoinvaz)

#Compression #Minizip #Zip #Zlib #Lzma #Bzip2 #winzip-aes #disk-splitting #Encryption #C #Xz #Pkware #MacOS #Linux #Windows

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zlib-ng		Minizip-ng
	Project
3	Mentions	0
1,072	Stars	907
3.4%	Growth	1.9%
9.6	Activity	7.3
4 days ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
C	Language	C
zlib License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

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.

Re: Zlib memory corruption on deflate (i.e. compress)
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Mar 2022

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
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
Release 2.0.0 - First stable release · zlib-ng/zlib-ng
1 project | reddit.com/r/programming | 19 Mar 2021

Minizip-ng

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Minizip-ng yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zlib-ng and Minizip-ng you can also consider the following projects:

ZLib - A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm

LZMA - (Unofficial) Git mirror of LZMA SDK releases

brotli - Brotli compression format

LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm

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).

Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor

LZHAM - Lossless data compression codec with LZMA-like ratios but 1.5x-8x faster decompression speed, C/C++

KArchive - Qt 5 addon providing access to numerous types of archives