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zlib is an open-source, cross-platform data compression library by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. The first public version, 0.9, was released on May 1, 1995 and was originally intended for use with libpng image library. zlib is distributed under the zlib license.
Software using zlib Today, zlib is something of a de facto standard, to the point that zlib and DEFLATE are often used interchangeably in standards documents. Hundreds of applications for Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux) rely on it for compression and it is increasingly used on other platforms, such as Microsoft Windows and the Palm OS. A few notable applications are: zlib is also used in many embedded devices because the code is portable and because the library has a relatively small memory footprint. See also | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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