Bug #10750: Seeking, reading and writing with GZIP

From: elifarley@yahoo.com Operating system: n/a PHP version: 4.0.5 PHP Bug Type: *Compression related Bug description: Seeking, reading and writing with GZIP - Seeking in a gzip file in read only mode is not quite fast; - Seeking backwards in a gzip file in write mode is not supported; I wish I could treat a gzip file like an ordinary uncompressed file, seeking to any position of it, reading, then writing, then reading some more, and so on. Everything done very quickly, of course. Proposed solution: add support for RAZip files. Right now it is still not possible to write at arbitrary positions in a RAZip-compressed file, but soon it will be. And random seek-and-read operations are much faster than with GZIP (In one test file, I could achieve almost 28 thousand percent speed increase in random reads). For more information about razip files, please visit http://www.geocities.com/elifarley/javalibs/ Regards, Elifarley -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10750&edit=1