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Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust
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.
- Points
- 127
- HN comments
- 45
- Submissions
- 1
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- 0 commenters
Software EngineeringSystems & Performance2026
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2026 | Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust by vismit2000 | 127 | 45 |
