Talk:DEFLATE

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Contents 1 ZipForge 2 AHA36x 3 StorCompress 4 BJWFlate/DeflOpt 5 Capitalization

[edit] ZipForge

Find out whether ZipForge is a separate implementation. The ZipForge web page includes the wording:

 "One of the fastest Deflate implementations available today"

but doesn't give further information. Downloading zf_d4_274.zip, then unzip install.exe gives a files called HISTORY.TXT. The history (changelog) file contains the wording:

 - version 2.70 (01/31/2006)
 New features added: 
 1. Extraction speed is increased. ZLib library is updated.
 ...

Whether this is the zlib is unknown. Sladen 17:03, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I have not received a reply from the company yet, but having downloaded a copy of Zipforge and attacked the library with 'strings' I'm fairly sure it's plain zlib. Sladen 20:05, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AHA36x

I ended up writing so much after researching the AHA36x that it may be worth moving this section to a separate page rather than risk losing it. Sladen 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Notability? Tomstdenis 17:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Many of the details on the site have nothing to do with DEFLATE itself. Like benchmarks, and ratios of their product, the PCI device id. Pretty much all of the details after the first paragraph belong in a separate article (if it passes the notability muster test). Wikipedia is not a place to list products or vendors if they're not truly notable. There are many vendors of hardware IP, we can't possibly list them all, and even if we could, it wouldn't help the reader. I suggest we remove everything after the first paragraph of AHA. Maybe google for other vendors to add to the list. Tomstdenis 15:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, from Googling, I only found two vendors of hardware DEFLATE solutions. The AHA36x was the one I found first and the information in the main page is the result of my research; my conclusion being that it is lacking to the point of non-usefulness. The second card I managed to turn up later (StorCompress, see below, not yet researched/listed) looks to be a much better solution. I think a hardware DEFLATE implementation is notable, though certainly not to the degree currently presented. The second card found should be researched and its capabilities discerned and listed aswell. Sladen 05:58, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Cool edits. Informational and to the point. Tomstdenis 13:04, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] StorCompress

Indra Networks appear to do the http://www.indranetworks.com/products-StorCompress300.html device, also hardware deflate. Sladen 05:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] BJWFlate/DeflOpt

Well, I feel honoured to be mentioned here on wiki... I stopped developing BJWFlate a few years ago. I picked up DeflOpt again a few months ago. It does not only do .zip files now, but also gzip and PNG. My page on my site: http://www.walbeehm.com/download

Hello Ben. What's wonderful to here that you've picked things up again. BTW, the URL you have is 404'ing; do you also have a preferred method of contacting you. I'd like to speak a little more about your experience with some of the other DEFLATE implementations you've come across (eg. Stuffit) as these haven't been written up on the article yet. Sladen 19:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The 404 was due to a server migration and subsequent IP change. You can find how to contact me in the DeflOpt205.7z file on my site. 67.8.85.101 16:19, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization

Why does this article capitalize the word DEFLATE? I'm guessing that this is done because that's the way it's written in the title of RFC 1951. But in fact, except in the title, this RFC writes "deflate" in lowercase (and usually, though not always, in quotes). So unless someone can find a better justification for writing the word in uppercase, I think it should be changed. --Zundark 09:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)