klauspost/compress
Optimized Go Compression Packages
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 15 days ago, with 97 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 7% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides optimized compression and decompression algorithms implemented in pure Go, including zstandard, snappy, deflate, gzip, zip, and more.
- Delivers high-performance, drop-in replacements for standard Go compression packages with improved speed, concurrency, and memory efficiency.
- Use for integrating fast, type-safe compression in Go applications requiring multiple algorithm support like zstd, snappy, and gzip.
- Use for building HTTP clients and servers that efficiently handle gzipped requests and responses with built-in middleware wrappers.
- Use for developing parallel gzip compression workflows leveraging the separate pgzip package for multi-core performance gains.
Should you depend on it?
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License
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Community files
- README: present
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From the README
This package provides various compression algorithms.
Use
go get github.com/klauspost/compress@latestto add it to your project.This package will support the current Go version and 2 versions back.
Use the links above for more information on each.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
422+37
Open issues
9-3
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| klauspost/compress | 5.7K | — | 54 | 15 days ago |
| Category median | 56.0K | +2.3K | 29 | — |
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