From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.157.10.20 with SMTP id 20mr52402669otg.25.1470147289967; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:14:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.9.72 with SMTP id 66mr447643otp.13.1470147289928; Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f6no6748168ith.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni22472ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no6765991ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 07:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.178.28.115; posting-account=Zsf4jwoAAADEqwCydv835KU9-S3h_Y26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.178.28.115 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: ANN: Thick Ada bindings for Zstd (Fast real-time compression algorithm) From: jrmarino Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:14:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31253 Date: 2016-08-02T07:14:49-07:00 List-Id: The Zstandard compression algorithm just reaching version 0.8.0 and it's ne= arly stable. It has a wide range range of fast vs high compression levels.= At the fast levels, it's much faster than gzip with the same compression = and it can approach xz -6 levels of compression in a fraction of the time. = It's very nice and exactly what I was looking for personally. http://www.zstd.net I spent some time creating some thicking bindings for Ada: https://github.com/jrmarino/zstd-ada Those bindings cover the stable API. What it does not cover is streaming c= ompression. That API is not yet stable and not even available in the share= d library (only the static one). When the streaming compression is stabliz= ed, I'll probably update the bindings. As usual, contributions via github = are always welcome. John Marino