I wonder why node doesn't just expose a sync version of the zlib
functions.  It's not like they are performing I/O or anything. FWIW I
intend to have both sync and async in luvit's zlib bindings unless there is
a good reason not to.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:30 AM, dhruvbird <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You could (at least in theory) spawn a gzip process that writes to a
> FIFO* (named pipe) and then use fs.readFileSync() to read that FIFO.
> Your process should block till you have completed reading in the FIFO.
> Create a wrapper function to do this an you have a blocking gzip()
> routine!
>
> * Might not work on windows.
>
> Regards,
> -Dhruv.
>
> On Apr 18, 5:12 am, Axel Kittenberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there some easy way to make yourself a zlib.gzipSync wrapper around
> > the nodes default callback/pipe interface to zlib? (Without streamline
> > or fibers)
> >
> > Its for the server startup sequence where it generates one hugh
> > javascript file for the client side to download and it keeps it raw as
> > well gzipped in memory. It does read the files with readSyncFile etc.
> > So yes I want the node process to be halted until it is done. Its fine
> > it takes 2 seconds, so please don't argue it could do this or that in
> > parallel. I also do the other *Sync calls for startup. I just want to
> > keep that simple please.
> >
> > - Axel
>
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