https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/data-compression/ Recent content in Data-Compression on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-27-cpp-compression-libraries-lz4-zstd-brotli-snappy-miniz/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-27-cpp-compression-libraries-lz4-zstd-brotli-snappy-miniz/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Data compression is a fundamental building block in modern systems engineering — it powers everything from database storage engines and network protocols to log aggregation and file archiving. While command-line tools like gzip and xz are ubiquitous, developers integrating compression into C++ applications need library-level APIs that can compress and decompress data in memory with minimal overhead.</p>