Re: [RFC] CryptoAPI & Compression

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 18:57 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> Yes, the compression will be better. But the implementation will be more 
> complicated.
> We can try to use the "bound" functions to predict how many bytes to 
> pass to the deflate's input, but there is no guarantee they'll fit into 
> the output buffer. In this case we'll need to try again.

Can we not predict the maximum number of bytes it'll take to flush the
stream when we're not using Z_SYNC_FLUSH?

-- 
dwmw2

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