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zlib is a free software library that implements the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in the gzip file compression program. It is used in hundreds of applications because the code is portable, has a relatively small memory footprint and the decompression causes only moderate CPU load. | zlib is a free software library that implements the [[DEFLATE]] compression algorithm used in the gzip file compression program. It is used in hundreds of applications because the code is portable, has a relatively small memory footprint and the decompression causes only moderate CPU load. | ||
==RFCs== | ==RFCs== |
Latest revision as of 09:52, 17 February 2009
zlib is a free software library that implements the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in the gzip file compression program. It is used in hundreds of applications because the code is portable, has a relatively small memory footprint and the decompression causes only moderate CPU load.