Client-side Snappy Compression

[Joran Greef]

Would it be possible to expose native Snappy deflate/inflate to JS in Chrome and WebKit? And a slow JS implementation of Snappy for any other browsers?

I have an experimental multi-user collaborative app that's syncing about 700 MB of data at the moment. I'm moving the syncing infrastructure over to WebSockets and from a text protocol to binary all the way down with efficient encodings. The last hurdle is compression.

[Paul Kinlan]

Have you thought of moving the compression out on to a worker thread?
It won't speed the app up but can help make your app more responive.

Alternatively, you could implement Snappy with support for NaCL and
embed that in your app to see if building it in to the browser would
gain much in the way of performance.

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[Joran Greef]

Do you know of a JS implementation of Snappy? I would like to skip NaCL.