I have put a new entry on http://pharo-project.org with this [ANN].
On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:51 AM, Masashi UMEZAWA <masashi.umez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I've developed Sqnappy - Squeak/Pharo binding of the snappy > compressor library. > https://github.com/mumez/sqnappy > > About snappy: > https://code.google.com/p/snappy/ > > Sqnappy is easy to use. You can just send #compress:, #uncompress to > SnappyCore: > compressed := SnappyCore compress: data. > uncompressed := SnappyCore uncompress: compressed. > > With a simple test, Sqnappy was 10.8x faster than the existing > GZipWriteStream/GZipReadStream. > > Additionally, Sqnappy implements snappy framing format, so that it can > treat big data with a small memory allocation. > > About framing format: > https://code.google.com/p/snappy/source/browse/trunk/framing_format.txt > > Tested from a workspace, 1.3 GB pg_dump file was compressed in around > 10 seconds and decompressed in 6.5 seconds . No annoying GCs. It was > comfortable. > > Enjoy! > -- > [:masashi | ^umezawa] >
