The Elegance of Deflate

Re:The Elegance of Deflate by brian-armstrong on Monday August 22, 2016 @02:27AM (#12334455)

I really enjoyed this article. It's just enough detail to leave you thinking, "Hey, I should write my own DEFLATE library"

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Re:The Elegance of Deflate by bbcbasic on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:28AM (#12334660)

Would be fun to do that in Haskell

Edit: https://github.com/GaloisInc/pure-zlib?files=1. Beautiful they've done just the decompression! Challenge awaits

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Re:The Elegance of Deflate by xxs on Monday August 22, 2016 @03:36AM (#12334689)

>>"Hey, I should write my own DEFLATE library"

Did that in Java (2011) and the impl. was faster than the native one (party due to lack of proper customization of zlib from java code)

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