Blog posts for `Data compression`
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xz incident shows the need for structural change
At Sovereign Tech Fund, we're following the xz incident closely and listening to the many voices in the FOSS maintainer community.
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Translating bzip2 with c2rust
Over the past couple of months we've been hard at work on libbzip2-rs, a 100% Rust drop-in compatible implementation the bzip2 compression and decompression functionality.
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zlib-rs is faster than C
We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs, featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.
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The fastest WASM zlib
This year we started work on zlib-rs, an implementation of Zlib in Rust, with the goal of maintaining excellent performance while introducing memory safety.
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Trifecta Tech Foundation is the new home for memory safe zlib
Today we're pleased to announce that the recently developed open source memory safe implementation of zlib – zlib-rs – initiated by ISRG's Prossimo project now has a new long-term home at our Trifecta Tech Foundation.
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Current zlib-rs performance
Our zlib-rs project implements a drop-in replacement for libz.so, a dynamic library that is widely used to perform gzip (de)compression.
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