Top 15 Go Compression Projects

compress

1 18 5,014 8.0 Go

Optimized Go Compression Packages

Project mention: Runtime code generation and execution in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-29

I didn't know Go reserved some registers for its own use. For libraries that don't use cgo but do use assembly [1], does this mean they have to generate that assembly with a compiler flag that avoids reserved registers?
[1] A common optimization technique, like in the superb https://github.com/klauspost/compress
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kanzi-go

2 3 593 8.4 Go

Fast lossless data compression in Go
xz

3 0 506 0.8 Go

Pure golang package for reading and writing xz-compressed files (by ulikunitz)
compress

4 4 409 3.1 Go

Collection of compression related Go packages. (by dsnet)
util

5 0 298 0.0 Go

A collection of useful utility functions (by shomali11)
pakkero

6 1 258 10.0 Go

Pakkero is a binary packer written in Go made for fun and educational purpose. Its main goal is to take in input a program file (elf binary, script, even appimage) and compress it, protect it from tampering and intrusion.
gzipped

7 1 95 3.0 Go

Replacement for golang http.FileServer which supports precompressed static assets.
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zstd-seekable-format-go

8 1 94 8.1 Go

Seekable ZSTD compression format implemented in Golang.
minlz

9 1 85 6.4 Go

MinLZ is a LZ77 compressor, focused on realtime data compression

Project mention: MinLZ: Efficient and fast Snappy/LZ4 style compressor in Go (Apache 2.0) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-17
caddy-brotli

10 1 50 3.4 Go

Brotli compression encoder for Caddy
go-ef

11 0 38 0.0 Go

A Go implementation of the Elias-Fano encoding
imagecompression

12 1 9 0.0 Go

Simple image compression using SVD
kromium

13 2 7 0.0 Go

Kromium is a bulk file copy/transformation tool.
golang-http-handler-with-gzip

14 1 4 0.0 Go

Golang HTTP Handler With Gzip
TSXor-Go

15 1 3 1.8 Go

TSXor: A Simple Time Series Compression Algorithm
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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).

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Bzip2 Format Specification [pdf]

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2024
BZIP2: Format Specification [pdf]

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2024
Kanzi is a modern, modular, expandable and efficient lossless data compressor

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Nov 2023
Ouch - simple compression and decompression for your terminal

2 projects | /r/commandline | 7 Jan 2023
Working with bzip2. The stdlib compress/bzip2 is not quite cutting it.

1 project | /r/golang | 3 Nov 2022
A Hidden Gem: Two Ways to Improve AWS Fargate Container Launch Times

3 projects | dev.to | 27 Oct 2022
Ask HN: Does https://github.com/klauspost/compress returns 502 for you?

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Sep 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Compression projects in Go? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	compress	5,014
2	kanzi-go	593
3	xz	506
4	compress	409
5	util	298
6	pakkero	258
7	gzipped	95
8	zstd-seekable-format-go	94
9	minlz	85
10	caddy-brotli	50
11	go-ef	38
12	imagecompression	9
13	kromium	7
14	golang-http-handler-with-gzip	4
15	TSXor-Go	3