Goal

I was inspired to add chunk compression, after thinking about it yesterday.

Plan

• Add compression using the flate2 crate, in a way that the compression can be undone transparently.
• Since compression can, at least in principle, fail, some interface changes may be necessary to make operations fallible.

Notes

• Add a plain text data type, as an enum with compressed and uncompressed variants. Later, if there's a need, this allows adding more compression methods.
• The flate2 library is pretty straightforward to use, but it exposes details I don't want to worry about, so I wrote simple wrappers to compress and decompress data in memory.

Summary

This was a fun Sunday morning hack.

Comments?

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