go-smaz is a pure Go implementation of antirez's smaz, a library for compressing short strings (particularly containing English words).
$ go get github.com/cespare/go-smaz
import "github.com/cespare/go-smaz"
s := "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party."
compressed := smaz.Compress([]byte(s)) // type is []byte
decompressed, err := smaz.Decompress(compressed) // type is []byte; string(decompressed) == sAlso see the API documentation.
go-smaz is not a direct port of the C version. It is not guaranteed that the output of smaz.Compress will be
precisely the same as the C library. However, the output should be decompressible by the C library, and the
output of the C library should be decompressible by smaz.Decompress.
Right now go-smaz is very slow -- a very hasty benchmark on my beefy quad-core desktop showed compression running at < 2MB/s and decompression at ~14MB/s. Initially I just hacked up a working implementation with no thought for performance; I'll profile it and make it a lot faster when I get a chance.
Caleb Spare (cespare). smaz was created by Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez).
MIT Licensed.