Top "Compression" questions

The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

Uglify-js doesn't mangle variable names

Trying to prepare good build environment for my js library. According to reviews on the web UglifyJS seems to be …

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How can I tail a zipped file without reading its entire contents?

I want to emulate the functionality of gzcat | tail -n. This would be helpful for times when there are huge …

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How to quickly check if a zip file is corrupted?

Does anyone have any ideas for how to pragmatically quickly check if a zip file is corrupted based on file …

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Does AES (128 or 256) encryption expand the data? If so, by how much?

I would like to add AES encryption to a software product, but am concerned by increasing the size of the …

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Tiff compression using Java ImageIO

I am having issues converting a png to tiff. The conversion goes fine, but the image is huge. I think …

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how to decompress with pigz

I am trying to use pigz for parallel compress and decompress. I have found a way to compress in parallel …

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Tomcat 7 GZIP compression not working

I have added the following lines in tomcat's conf/server.xml file to enable gzip compression but its not working. …

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Gzip versus minify

I had a somewhat lively discussion the other day about minifying Javascript and CSS versus someone who prefers using Gzip. …

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Error Deflate And Inflate With zLib

I'm trying to compile the zpipe.c example in my Linux(Ubuntu 8.04) with gcc, but I'm getting some errors, take …

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Does PostgreSQL support transparent compressing of tables (fragments)?

I'm going to store large amount of data (logs) in fragmented PostgreSQL tables (table per day). I would like to …

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