This library provides Haskell bindings to the Zstandard compression library.
The library is structured to provide several layers of abstraction.
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For the simplest use cases, the top-level
Zstd
module is the best place to get started. -
If you need to stream a large amount of data with a constant memory footprint, use the
Zstd.Streaming
module. This can also be used as a building block for adapting to streaming libraries such aspipes
andconduit
. (If you need to use lazy bytestrings instead, see theZstd.Lazy
module. This is built using the abstractions from theZstd.Streaming
module.) -
When your usage is dominated by lots of small messages (presumably using pre-computed compression dictionaries), use the
Zstd.Efficient
module to amortize the cost of allocating and initializing context and dictionary values.
If you'd like to help improve the code, please read the contribution guidelines. This discusses how to file bugs and submit changes to the code itself.
The APIs should be easy to understand and work with, and you can find documentation on Hackage.