Blog posts for `Data compression`

• 2024-04-04 Data compression source: Sovereign Tech Fund

  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. Read more ...

• 2025-03-10 Author: Folkert de Vries bzip2-rs data compression source: Trifecta Tech Foundation

  Translating bzip2 with c2rust

  
  We've been hard at work on libbzip2-rs, a 100% Rust drop-in compatible implementation the bzip2 compression and decompression functionality. Read more ...

• 2025-02-25 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression source: Trifecta Tech Foundation

  zlib-rs is faster than C

  
  zlib-rs is now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too. Read more ...

• 2024-11-19 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression source: Trifecta Tech Foundation

  The fastest WASM zlib

  
  WASM has its own SIMD instructions these days. We know that SIMD is incredibly effective for the zlib algorithms, and were excited to use the WASM SIMD instructions. Read more ...

• 2024-11-07 Author: Erik Jonkers zlib-rs data compression source: Trifecta Tech Foundation

  Trifecta Tech Foundation is the new home for memory safe zlib

  
  Zlib-rs, an open source memory safe implementation of zlib, has a new long-term home at the Trifecta Tech Foundation Read more ...

• 2024-08-08 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression source: Trifecta Tech Foundation

  Current zlib-rs performance

  
  A crucial aspect of making zlib-rs successful is solid performance. In this post we'll see how the implementation performs today, and how we measure that performance. Read more ...