Pure JS xz compressing/decompressing
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4The current xz modules on npm uses native bindings, which is very fragile and not very suitable for reusable modules. It would be nice to have a pure JS version even though it would be a lot slower. Could then make a wrapper module that used the native binding if it installed successfully, otherwise the JS version.
Might be worth looking into compiling the native xz code to JS using emscripten.
This could potentially also be useful in the browser, where everything have to be pure JS.
Prior art
- Native binding:
- JS
- https://github.com/cscott/lzma-purejs (no idea if this is suitable for
xz)
- https://github.com/cscott/lzma-purejs (no idea if this is suitable for
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