Bzip2 Format Specification [pdf]

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  • compress

    Collection of compression related Go packages. (by dsnet)

  • banzai

    banzai: pure rust bzip2 encoder

  • This is one of the most useful documents on the web regarding bzip2 implementation. I wrote a bzip2 encoder in Rust [1] a couple of years ago and it would have been an uphill struggle without Joe Tsai's work.

    [1] https://github.com/jgbyrne/banzai/

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  • bzip3

    A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2.

  • Kamila Szewczyk is working on a bzip3 to improve the state-of-the-art in the domain of compressors based on Burrows-Wheeler:

    https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3

    I’m keeping fingers crossed for the project. Especially given that the author is 19 and her best work is yet to come.

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