node/deps/zlib/contrib/puff

Puff -- A Simple Inflate
3 Mar 2003
Mark Adler
madler@alumni.caltech.edu

What this is --

puff.c provides the routine puff() to decompress the deflate data format.  It
does so more slowly than zlib, but the code is about one-fifth the size of the
inflate code in zlib, and written to be very easy to read.

Why I wrote this --

puff.c was written to document the deflate format unambiguously, by virtue of
being working C code.  It is meant to supplement RFC 1951, which formally
describes the deflate format.  I have received many questions on details of the
deflate format, and I hope that reading this code will answer those questions.
puff.c is heavily commented with details of the deflate format, especially
those little nooks and cranies of the format that might not be obvious from a
specification.

puff.c may also be useful in applications where code size or memory usage is a
very limited resource, and speed is not as important.

How to use it --

Well, most likely you should just be reading puff.c and using z