Compression Libs

One of the first things almost anyone does to improve performance (specifically bandwidth) is to turn on compression. Luckily compression is well supported in rust.

• async-compression

  

  Adaptors between compression crates and Rust's modern asynchronous IO types.

• flate2

  

  DEFLATE compression and decompression exposed as Read/BufRead/Write streams. Supports miniz_oxide and multiple zlib implementations. Supports zlib, gzip, and raw deflate streams.

• tar

  

  A Rust implementation of a TAR file reader and writer. This library does not currently handle compression, but it is abstract over all I/O readers and writers. Additionally, great lengths are taken to ensure that the entire contents are never required to be entirely resident in memory all at once.

• inflate

  

  DEFLATE decoding

• bzip2

  

  Bindings to libbzip2 for bzip2 compression and decompression exposed as Reader/Writer streams.

• brotli

  

  A brotli compressor and decompressor that with an interface avoiding the rust stdlib. This makes it suitable for embedded devices and kernels. It is designed with a pluggable allocator so that the standard lib's allocator may be employed. The default build also includes a stdlib allocator and stream interface. Disable this with --features=no-stdlib. All included code is safe.

• snap

  

  A pure Rust implementation of the Snappy compression algorithm. Includes streaming compression and decompression.

• zip

  

  Library to support the reading and writing of zip files.

• zstd

  

  Binding for the zstd compression library.