Top 6 C Zip Projects

cosmopolitan

201 15,067 9.8 C

build-once run-anywhere c library

Project mention: Python Is Portable | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-15

The reality is a bit different, the work on Python 3.6 was checked into the Cosmopolitan repo and I have been able to use it for production workloads that are in pure python. [0]
As Cosmopolitan Libc has evolved, it has been possible to compile more software without modifications, and that includes latest Python through a project called superconfigure[1].
Last person who tried to reproduce it from scratch did it last week (granted it too them a few days of solid work) but in the end they ended with a portable binary with Python 3.11.9, brotli, ssl and asyncio for their work related project.[2]
[0] https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party...

libarchive

33 2,870 8.8 C

Multi-format archive and compression library

Project mention: The XZ attack and timeline | dev.to | 2024-04-17

29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.

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zip

2 1,315 7.2 C

A portable, simple zip library written in C (by kuba--)
Minizip-ng

0 1,160 8.0 C

Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution.
TurboBench

10 310 8.9 C

Compression Benchmark

Project mention: Zstd Content-Encoding planned to ship with Chrome 123 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-07

I'm still unconvinced about this addition. And I don't even dislike Zstandard.
The main motivation seems to be that while Zstandard is worse than Brotli at the highest level, it's substantially faster than Brotli when data has to be compressed on the fly with a limited computation budget. That might be true, but I'm yet to see any concrete or even anecdotal evidence even in the issue tracker [1] while there exist some benchmarks where both Zstandard and Brotli are fast enough for the web usage even at lower levels [2].
According to their FAQ [3] Meta and Akamai have successfully used Zstandard in their internal network, but my gut feeling is that they never actually tried to optimize Brotli instead. In fact, Meta employs the main author of Zstandard so it would have been easier to tune Zstandard instead of Brotli. While Brotli has some fundamental difference from Zstandard (in particular Brotli doesn't use arithmetic-equivalent coding), no one has concretely demonstrated that difference would prevent Brotli from being fast enough for dynamic contents in my opinion.
[1] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40196713
[2] https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench/issues/43
[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14dbzMpsYPfkefAJos124uPrl...

LuaRT

5 153 9.2 C

Open source Windows programming framework for Lua

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