Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I had expected the zlib itself merely takes a pointer to a buffer full 
> of data, and a pointer to an empty buffer, and moves data from one to 
> the other, compressing or decompressing as requested. I'm surprised it 
> actually implements anything as high-level as file access.

  If the data you are decompressing doesn't fit into RAM, how are you
supposed to decompress it? (Answer: By streaming. In other words,
decompress small parts at a time. This requires more than one simple
"decompress this" function.)

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                                                          - Warp

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