Show HN: Stb_zip – header-only C ZIP parser, zero dependencies, fast

3•Forgret•4h ago

I've built a small, header-only C library to parse ZIP archives with no external dependencies. It works on everything from embedded devices to desktop games and supports both "store" and "deflate" compression. Benchmarks (Core i7-12700K, 32GB RAM): - Decompress 1GB: 0.8s (2.1x faster than miniz) - Parse 100k files: 12ms (3.2x faster) - CRC32 of 1GB: 0.2s (5.5x faster)

GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/stb-zip

MIT licensed, feedback welcome.

Comments

ycombinatrix•24m ago

What is the significance of a library being "header-only"?

C headers can include arbitrary code, right? So why is "header-only" better than having file.h & file.c?

gkbrk•22m ago

Why would I want to deal with downloading and handling multiple files when I can just use a single file?

Turning a header-only library into file.h and file.c is easy if I want to do it. Turning a multi-file project into a single header file is a lot more work.

ycombinatrix•17m ago

A "header-only" library can presumably be multiple header files, which is not what you are discussing.

Why not say what you really mean? Which seems to be: "single-file" library.

World History Atlas

A lightweight and intelligent cross-platform Markdown editor – MarkFlowy

Safe Is What We Call Things Later: Some Software Engineering Folklore

Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp

Clice 0.1.0-alpha.1: First Alpha of a New C++ LSP server with Modules support

Turning a $150 AC into a Super-Efficient Geothermal Unit [video]

Political Representation Gaps and Populism

California EV drivers could lose their carpool lane privileges in September

Tell HN: Where are we going? An inversion of the interaction paradigm

ICE Uses Celebrity Loophole to Hide Deportation Flights

Features of Handy Messaging Framework

PSA: Validate Your Storage JMicron JMS583 and Kioxia BG4 Series SSD Issue?

There's something very interesting about boring: Martin Parr's life in pictures

Fuzzy search through Firefox open tabs

Show HN: Simple WiFi QR Code Generator – Share WiFi Without Typing Passwords

China, Russia, and U.S. Race to Develop Lunar Nuclear Reactors

Show HN: I Made a Website Where Every Possible URL Exists (With AI)

Dynamically patch a Python function's source code at runtime

A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

Show HN: yolo-cls – C++ batch image classification CLI with ONNX Runtime

Gemini for Home: Your household's new, more helpful assistant

An elementary introduction to information geometry

Tennis Legend Roger Federer Is Now a Billionaire

Pong Cloned by Neural Network

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr

The Jackpot Age

Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

Why I'm Switching SOT to uv

Show HN: Misterio the Docker-compose stateless alternative to Ansible

Show HN: I wanted AI in Slack, ended up making Basecase (AI agents in chat)