linflate

"Allfadern ser varje bit" — The Allfather sees every bit.

Fast pure-Rust DEFLATE decompressor (inflate engine). Extracted from ljar-rs as a shared crate used by both lgz-rs and ljar-rs.

Design

• Full-buffer model (libdeflate) — no streaming state machine, no circular window
• SIMD match-copy (zlib-ng) — SSE2/AVX2 chunk copies for overlapping LZ77 back-references
• Branchless 64-bit bit refill — 4 instructions, guarantees ≥56 bits after refill
• Thread-local DecompressTables pool — zero heap allocation on the hot decode path
• 11-bit first-level Huffman table — subtable lookups eliminated for real-world streams
• Segment-aware — inflate_segment() stops at block boundary without requiring BFINAL
• Window-prefix support — enables pugz-style speculative parallel decode

Pure Rust, no unsafe dependencies. Uses unsafe internally for SIMD intrinsics and raw-pointer arithmetic in the hot loop.

Benchmark

Single-core decode throughput on Silesia corpus (x86-64, AVX2):

Public API

use linflate::{inflate_into, inflate_segment, inflate_to_vec, OVERWRITE_HEADROOM, InflateError};

// Raw DEFLATE → pre-allocated buffer (zero-copy hot path)
fn inflate_into(compressed: &[u8], output: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, InflateError>;

// Non-BFINAL-aware: decompresses one or more blocks, stops at block boundary
fn inflate_segment(compressed: &[u8], output: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, InflateError>;

// With LZ77 window prefix for speculative/parallel decode
fn inflate_segment_with_prefix(
    compressed: &[u8], output: &mut [u8], prefix_len: usize,
) -> Result<usize, InflateError>;

// Limited output (for fixup passes in parallel decoders)
fn inflate_segment_with_prefix_limited(
    compressed: &[u8], output: &mut [u8], prefix_len: usize, limit: usize,
) -> Result<usize, InflateError>;

// Convenience: allocates and decompresses
fn inflate_to_vec(compressed: &[u8], expected_size: usize) -> Result<Vec<u8>, InflateError>;

// Caller must add this many bytes to the output buffer for SIMD overwrite safety
const OVERWRITE_HEADROOM: usize;

Usage

let compressed: &[u8] = /* raw DEFLATE stream (no gzip/zlib header) */;
let mut output = vec![0u8; expected_size + linflate::OVERWRITE_HEADROOM];

let written = linflate::inflate_into(compressed, &mut output)?;
output.truncate(written);

Part of the l-family

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0

Repository: https://github.com/Ignalina/linflate-rs