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Add stream-size option to pzstd

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#3,171 opened on Jun 21, 2022

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Description

The standard zstd tool has a --stream-size option so the file size can be set for streamed compression. However, pzstd doesn't support this option, so any file compressed with pzstd has to be decompressed with a stream (so, eg, the PyPi zstd module can't be used).

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Research direction
Study the implementation of stream size in zstd (single threaded) and adapt it for pzstd, which uses parallel compression. Ensure that the stream size is correctly propagated to the parallel compression context.
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c
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clitooling
Issue type
Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
Czstd streaming API
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65