Possibly relevant is Julia Evan's gzip implementation: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equals-awesome/
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Gunnar Farnebäck <gun...@lysator.liu.se>wrote: > At some point when I had trouble loading zlib I wrote a pure Julia > implementation of zlib and gzip decompression. > > Pros: > * Written in Julia. > * No external dependencies. > > Cons: > * Only supports decompression and only from a buffer (i.e. no streaming). > * Substantially slower than zlib (about five times when I wrote it, > current status unknown). > * Much less tested than zlib. > > Is this of interest to someone else, e.g. as a package or as a performance > test? > > The code can be viewed at > > https://gist.github.com/GunnarFarneback/8254567 > >
