This package provides a pure interface for compressing and decompressing streams of data represented as lazy ByteStrings. It uses the zlib C library so it has high performance. It supports the "zlib", "gzip" and "raw" compression formats.

It provides a convenient high level API suitable for most tasks and for the few cases where more control is needed it provides access to the full zlib feature set.

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Manual Flags

Name	Description	Default
non-blocking-ffi	The (de)compression calls can sometimes take a long time, which prevents other Haskell threads running. Enabling this flag avoids this unfairness, but with greater overall cost.	Enabled
bundled-c-zlib	Use zlib-clib package with C sources instead of a system library. C sources are used for GHCJS and WASM unconditionally and on Windows unless pkg-config flag is on.	Disabled

Automatic Flags

Name	Description	Default
pkg-config	Use pkg-config executable to locate foreign zlib library.	Enabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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• Package description (as included in the package)

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• DuncanCoutts, HerbertValerioRiedel, Bodigrim, topos

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