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SubjectRe: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:59:23PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
>
> Err, it looks like we've lost the conversation flow. :-) I commented
> your phrase: "The question is what happens when you compress 1 1GiB
> input buffer into a 1GiB output buffer."
>
> Then could you please in a nutshell write what worries you or what issue
> you would like to clarify?
>
> IIRC, you worried that in case of a large input and output 12 bytes
> won't be enough. I argued it should. I'm even going to check this soon :-)

You can't compress 1M-12bytes into 1M using zlib when the block size
is 64K.
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