On 4/25/13 11:50 PM, "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]
Very useful, very nice.
Thanks.
Congrats !
Edgar
