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10 June 2012
Have big things that you need to make smaller? Look no further than the compress package. It’s the next chapter available in Go, The Standard Library.
Since each sub-package in the compress package follows basically the same interface, I tried something different this time. I used the flag package (which we’ll see later) to control what to do. The main example file uses all the different compression packages in one foul swoop, instead of separate files for each algorithm. The crypto package will be similar.
I also included a good real-world example: Accept-Encoding: gzip
It looks at building gzip support into your webserver. It’s super simple thanks to how Go deals with IO.
Anyway, if you want to check it out, get your copy of Go, The Standard Library now for only $29. The book’s only getting bigger!