Hi,
I have a few questions about the "deflate" crypto module (crypto/deflate.c).
1. Why does it support decompression of full chunks only (i.e. all compressed
data has to be passed at once)? Is there a specific reason for that?
Or is it just because so far nobody needed partial decompression?
2. Why was the lazy allocation removed back in 2004?
If you're interested in decompression only, it's a bit wasteful to
allocate 262 KiB of memory for compression and never use it.
Thanks for your answers!
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With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
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