Gzip

[dhardy]

This adds gzip decompression support.

You probably don't want to include as-is; I'm using Rust 0.11.0. I'm also using Meson to compile (Cargo didn't work; maybe the old version), which required renaming a couple of files (Meson's Rust support is in its infancy).

Code review is also welcome. I've tested against a few gzip examples (included).

[kvark]

This is grand! I've scanned through it and didn't see anything inherently wrong. Would be nice to have it merging/compiling successfully, and then I'd do a second pass.

[dhardy]

Yes, merging would be nice. I beg to differ, though: it does compile
successfully. If I update my Rust installation I'll update the code, but that
may not happen immediately.

On a slightly different topic, I notice it's a lot slower than the official
"gunzip". How does one go about profiling Rust code?

On Monday 28 July 2014 18:16:32 Dzmitry Malyshau wrote:

This is grand! I've scanned through it and didn't see anything inherently
wrong. Would be nice to have it merging/compiling successfully, and then
I'd do a second pass.

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[alexcrichton]

Sadly the zlib decoder is not optimized at all, and is likely quite slow. You may be interested in the gzip bindings I wrote for another project which is backed by miniz.c for decompression/compression.

[dhardy]

Write support too. Wish I'd known this existed before.