In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

We identified a severe bottleneck in the way hammer exports work and found the code in upstream Pulp. The tarfile Python module creates tar files using the gizp Python module. Data compression for the ...

What is a gzip file? Among various file zipping formats gzip is also one such format of file zipping where larger files are compressed into smaller file formats mostly in MegaBytes (MB). All the gzip ...

We study the language of legal codes from different countries and legal traditions, using concepts from physics, algorithmic complexity theory and information theory. We show that vocabulary entropy, ...

You can examine the contents of compressed files on Linux systems without uncompressing the files or changing them in any way. This post explains the commands for doing that and the types of ...

If you're looking to gain a bit more performance out of your NGINX web server, Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of gzip compression. NGINX is an outstanding, open source web server. It’s easy ...

The indexed_gzip project is a Python extension which aims to provide a drop-in replacement for the built-in Python gzip.GzipFile class, the IndexedGzipFile. indexed_gzip was written to allow fast ...