This section describes Intel IPP data compression functions that implement compression methods and data formats defined by the following specifications: [RFC1950], [RFC1951], and [RFC1952]. These formats are also known as ZLIB, DEFLATE, and GZIP, respectively.

A basic algorithm for these data compression methods is based on the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) [Ziv77] dictionary-based compression.

The structure of ZLIB data is schematically shown in Figure

"ZLIB Data Structure"

.

The full version of the

zlib

library is included with the product at

<ipp directory>

/interfaces/data-compression/ipp_zlib

.