go-xerial-snappy

Xerial-compatible Snappy framing support for golang.

Packages using Xerial for snappy encoding use a framing format incompatible with basically everything else in existence.

Apps that use this format include Apache Kafka (see dpkp/kafka-python#126 (comment) for details).

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Forked from github.com/eapache/go-xerial-snappy.

Changes:

• Uses S2 for better/faster compression and decompression.
• Fixes 0-length roundtrips.
• Adds DecodeCapped, which allows decompression with capped output size.
• DecodeInto will decode directly into destination if there is space enough.
• Encode will now encode directly into 'dst' if it has space enough.
• Fixes short snappy buffers returning ErrMalformed.
• Renames EncodeStream to Encode.
• Adds EncodeBetter for better than default compression at ~half the speed.

Comparison (before/after):

BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncode-32    	  959010	      1170 ns/op	 875.15 MB/s	    1280 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncode-32    	 1000000	      1107 ns/op	 925.04 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
--> Output size: 913 -> 856 bytes

BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncodeBetter-32    	  477739	      2506 ns/op	 408.62 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
--> Output size: 835 bytes

BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncodeMassive-32  	     100    	  10596963 ns/op	 966.31 MB/s	   40977 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncodeMassive-32  	     100       	  10220236 ns/op	1001.93 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
--> Output size: 2365547 -> 2256991 bytes

BenchmarkSnappyStreamEncodeBetterMassive-32    	      69	  16983314 ns/op	 602.94 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op
--> Output size: 2011997 bytes

BenchmarkSnappyStreamDecodeInto-32    	 1887378	       639.5 ns/op	1673.19 MB/s	    1088 B/op	       3 allocs/op
BenchmarkSnappyStreamDecodeInto-32    	 2707915	       436.2 ns/op	2452.99 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op

BenchmarkSnappyStreamDecodeIntoMassive-32    	     267	   4559594 ns/op	2245.81 MB/s	   71120 B/op	       1 allocs/op
BenchmarkSnappyStreamDecodeIntoMassive-32    	     282	   4285844 ns/op	2389.26 MB/s	       0 B/op	       0 allocs/op