compression

I'm searching for an algorithm to compress small text strings: 50-1000 bytes (i.e. URLs). Which algorithm works best for this? stvchu Check out Smaz : Smaz is a simple compression library suitable for compressing very short strings. Huffman has a static cost, the Huffman table, so I disagree it's a good choice. There are adaptative versions which do away with this, but the compression rate may suffer. Actually, the question you should ask is "what algorithm to compress text strings with these characteristics". For instance, if long repetitions are expected, simple Run-Lengh Encoding might be

I'm trying to create a ZIP archive with a simple demo text file using a MemoryStream as follows: using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) using (var archive = new ZipArchive(memoryStream , ZipArchiveMode.Create)) { var demoFile = archive.CreateEntry("foo.txt"); using (var entryStream = demoFile.Open()) using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(entryStream)) { streamWriter.Write("Bar!"); } using (var fileStream = new FileStream(@"C:\Temp\test.zip", FileMode.Create)) { stream.CopyTo(fileStream); } } If I run this code, the archive file itself is created but foo.txt isn't. However, if I

What advantages do either method offer for html, css and javascript files served by a LAMP server. Are there better alternatives? The server provides information to a map application using Json, so a high volume of small files. See also Is there any performance hit involved in choosing gzip over deflate for http compression? Sam Saffron Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache? The simple answer is don't . RFC 2616 defines deflate as: deflate The "zlib" format defined in RFC 1950 in combination with the "deflate" compression mechanism described in RFC 1951 The zlib