| PackageDescription | This package hosts a collection of compression related libraries. The goal of
this project is to provide pure Go implementations for popular compression
algorithms beyond what the Go standard library provides. The goals for these
packages are as follows:
– Maintainable: That the code remains well documented, well tested, readable,
easy to maintain, and easy to verify that it conforms to the specification
for the format being implemented.
– Performant: To be able to compress and decompress within at least 80% of the
rates that the C implementations are able to achieve.
– Flexible: That the code provides low-level and fine granularity control over
the compression streams similar to what the C APIs would provide.
Of these three, the first objective is often at odds with the other two
objectives and provides interesting challenges. Higher performance can often be
achieved by muddling abstraction layers or using non-intuitive low-level
primitives. Also, more features and functionality, while useful in some
situations, often complicates the API. Thus, this package will attempt to
satisfy all the goals, but will defer to favoring maintainability when the
performance or flexibility benefits are not significant enough.
This package contains the source code needed for building packages that
reference the following Go import paths:
– github.com/dsnet/compress |