zabrane/wflz-erlang-nif

An Erlang NIF wrapper for wfLZ fast compression / decompression library.

wflz-erlang-nif

An Erlang NIF wrapper for wfLZ fast compression / decompression library.

License.

1. wfLZ code is distributed under WTFPL license, please see http://code.google.com/p/wflz for further information.
2. Rest of the code, including Erlang code and nif bindings is distributed under BSD license.

Building.

1. rake deps -- pull the wflz dependency from google code.
2. rake platform32|platform64 -- where platform is your platform (see platforms through rake -- tasks) to compile the wflz dynamic library NIF.
3. rake compile -- to compile the Erlang part.

Running.

1> code:add_path("ebin").
true

2> wflz:compress(<<"01234567">>).
<<87,70,76,90,12,0,0,0,8,0,0,0,16,0,4,8,48,49,50,51,52,53,
  54,55,0,0,0,0,127,...>>

3> wflz:fastcompress(<<"01234567">>).
<<87,70,76,90,12,0,0,0,8,0,0,0,0,0,4,8,48,49,50,51,52,53,
  54,55,0,0,0,0,0,...>>

4> wflz:decompress(wflz:compress(<<"01234567">>)).
<<"01234567">>

5> wflz:decompress(wflz:fastcompress(<<"01234567">>)).     
<<"01234567">>