Top 6 C Gzip Projects

pgBackRest

7 1,493 9.4 C

Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

Project mention: pgBackRest - have you used it and what was your experience? | reddit.com/r/Database | 2023-01-26
uzlib

0 235 0.0 C

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).
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genozip

1 113 7.3 C

A modern compressor for genomic files (FASTQ, SAM/BAM/CRAM, VCF, FASTA, GFF/GTF/GVF, 23andMe...), up to 5x better than gzip and faster too

Project mention: We're wasting money by only supporting gzip for raw DNA files | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-01-09

You might want to check out Genozip - a modern compressor for FASTQ, BAM/CRAM, VCF etc.
tinf

3 110 10.0 C

Tiny inflate library (inflate, gzip, zlib)

Project mention: Hello, PNG | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-01-18

CRC is a table and 5 lines of code. That's trivial.
>zlib is 23k lines
It's not needed to make a PNG reader/writer. zlib is massive overkill for only making a PNG reader or writer. Here's a tiny deflate/inflate code [2] under 1k lines (and could be much smaller if needed).
stb[0] has single headers of ~7k lines total including all of the formats PNG, JPG, BMP,. PSD, GIF, HDR, and PIC. Here's [1] a 3k lines single file PNG version with tons if #ifdefs for all sorts of platforms. Removing those and I'd not be surprised if you could not do it in ~1k lines (which I'd consider quite simple compared to most of todays' media formats).
>Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG
BMP is super common and easy to use anywhere.
I use flat image files all the time for quick and dirty stuff. They quickly saturate disk speeds and networking speeds (say recording a few decent speed cameras), and I've found PNG compression to alleviate those saturate CPU speeds (some libs are super slow, some are vastly faster). I've many times made custom compression formats to balance these for high performance tools when neither things like BMPs or things like PNG would suffice.
[0] https://github.com/nothings/stb
[1] https://github.com/richgel999/fpng/blob/main/src/fpng.cpp
[2] https://github.com/jibsen/tinf/tree/master/src
Stm32-FatFs-Gzip

3 5 10.0 C

This project offers a simplified compressor that produces Gzip-compatible output with small resources for microcontrollers and edge computers. He uses the very basic LZ77 compression algorithm and static Deflate Huffman tree encoding to compress / decompress data into Gzip files.

Project mention: GZIP Compression into Embedded systems | reddit.com/r/programming | 2022-11-05
nflate

0 2 0.0 C

Naive implementation of DEFLATE in C for decompressing gzip files (RFC 1951, RFC 1952).

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-01-26.