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A pure Haskell implementation of the Snappy compression spec.

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Dependencies base (>=4.11 && <5), bytestring (>=0.11 && <0.14), snappy-hs [details]
License MIT
Author Michael Chavinda
Maintainer mschavinda@gmail.com
Uploaded by mchav at 2026-02-23T20:33:40Z
Category Codec
Home page https://github.com/mchav/snappy-hs
Bug tracker https://github.com/mchav/snappy-hs/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/mchav/snappy-hs
Distributions NixOS:0.1.0.4, Stackage:0.1.0.5
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 4 indirect [details]
Executables snappy-hs
Downloads 88 total (15 in the last 30 days)
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snappy-hs

A pure Haskell implementation of the Snappy compression format.

This library prioritizes portability and simplicity over raw speed. It works reliably across platforms without requiring a C toolchain or dealing with FFI.

Performance

In informal benchmarks, this implementation is roughly 2–3× slower than native Snappy.

When to use

  • You want cross-platform Snappy encode/decode with a pure Haskell dependency stack
  • You’d rather avoid C FFI and the build/packaging complexity that comes with it

When not to use

  • You need maximum throughput (use the native library or an FFI-based binding instead)