ian erik varatalu

phd student at taltech, working on automata theory, algorithms, fast search engines and solvers.

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Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

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i wanted to have a deeper grasp of how compression works, so i wrote a gzip decompressor from scratch. the result is about 250 lines of rust that can decompress gzip from a file or stdin.