[PHP-DEV] Bug #10750 Updated: Seeking, reading and writing with GZIP From: elifarley <email protected>
Date: 05/10/01

ID: 10750
User Update by: elifarley <email protected>
Old-Status: Open
Status: Closed
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Operating system: n/a
PHP Version: 4.0.5
Description: Seeking, reading and writing with GZIP

Previous Comments:
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[2001-05-09 09:45:14] elifarley <email protected>
- Seeking in a gzip file in read only mode is not quite
fast;

- Seeking backwards in a gzip file in write mode is not
supported;

I wish I could treat a gzip file like an ordinary
uncompressed file, seeking to any position of it, reading,
then writing, then reading some more, and so on. Everything
done very quickly, of course.

Proposed solution: add support for RAZip files. Right now
it is still not possible to write at arbitrary positions in
a RAZip-compressed file, but soon it will be. And random
seek-and-read operations are much faster than with GZIP (In
one test file, I could achieve almost 28 thousand percent
speed increase in random reads).

For more information about razip files, please visit
http://www.geocities.com/elifarley/javalibs/

Regards,
Elifarley

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Full Bug description available at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10750 

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