snappy-erlang-nif

This is an Erlang NIF for Google's snappy fast compressor and decompressor.

Google snappy's official repository and bug tracking system is at:

• https://github.com/google/snappy

Its source is included in this project.

changelog

• tag 1.1.2 as tests pass against OTP-24
• tag otp-24 compatibility
• switch build chain to rebar3 and enc requiring OTP20 or newer
• tag snappy-1.1.8, also first version compatible with OTP23 (thanks @skaes)
• tag snappy-1.1.3
• add a changelog

site

https://github.com/skunkwerks/snappy-erlang-nif

credits

Software is built by a few people and maintained by many. Thank-you for all your patches!

• Arne Ehrlich Arne.Ehrlich@groknet.de
• Bryan Chan bryanpkc@gmail.com
• Dave Cottlehuber dch@skunkwerks.at
• Filipe David Manana fdmanana@apache.org
• Joshua Scott joshua.scott@gmail.com
• Kelly McLaughlin kelly@basho.com
• Louis-Philippe Gauthier lpgauth@gmail.com
• Mikhail Uvarov arcusfelis@gmail.com
• Peter Membrey peter@membrey.hk
• Piotr Nosek piotr.nosek@erlang-solutions.com
• benoitc bchesneau@gmail.com
• @dch314
• glejeune gregoire.lejeune@free.fr
• Stefan Kaes stkaes@gmail.com

performance tests

Snappy is much faster than zlib's deflate compression, specially for reasonably large amounts of data. Here follow a few basic tests.