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diff --git a/docs/interfaces/deflateoptions.md b/docs/interfaces/deflateoptions.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..74fe5d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/interfaces/deflateoptions.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +# Interface: DeflateOptions + +Options for compressing data into a DEFLATE format + +## Hierarchy + +* **DeflateOptions** + + ↳ [GzipOptions](gzipoptions.md) + + ↳ [ZlibOptions](zliboptions.md) + + ↳ [AsyncDeflateOptions](asyncdeflateoptions.md) + + ↳ [ZipOptions](zipoptions.md) + +## Index + +### Properties + +* [level](deflateoptions.md#level) +* [mem](deflateoptions.md#mem) + +## Properties + +### level + +• `Optional` **level**: 0 \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 + +The level of compression to use, ranging from 0-9. + +0 will store the data without compression. +1 is fastest but compresses the worst, 9 is slowest but compresses the best. +The default level is 6. + +Typically, binary data benefits much more from higher values than text data. +In both cases, higher values usually take disproportionately longer than the reduction in final size that results. + +For example, a 1 MB text file could: +- become 1.01 MB with level 0 in 1ms +- become 400 kB with level 1 in 10ms +- become 320 kB with level 9 in 100ms + +___ + +### mem + +• `Optional` **mem**: 0 \| 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6 \| 7 \| 8 \| 9 \| 10 \| 11 \| 12 + +The memory level to use, ranging from 0-12. Increasing this increases speed and compression ratio at the cost of memory. + +Note that this is exponential: while level 0 uses 4 kB, level 4 uses 64 kB, level 8 uses 1 MB, and level 12 uses 16 MB. +It is recommended not to lower the value below 4, since that tends to hurt performance. +In addition, values above 8 tend to help very little on most data and can even hurt performance. + +The default value is automatically determined based on the size of the input data. |