Re: [RFH] zlib gurus out there?

Hi,

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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No, I don't think that's good. You're only doing a partial deflate, you 
can't ask for a Z_FULL_FLUSH. That only works if you give it the whole 
buffer, and you don't.

Actually, I misread what you were trying to do, and thought this was the 
inflate phase, not the deflate.

I don't think it matters if it is inflate or deflate. ZLib keeps an 
internal state depending on the data. That is the whole reason why the 
packing is so good: it uses the redundancy in the data already seen to 
construct a codebook. (And that's also the reason why you can't start to 
deflate in the middle.)

Ciao,
Dscho