You can get pretty far with "amnesiac" zlib for networking, too. You collect up writes in your out-buffer, and use zlib to compress it before transmission. The

You can get pretty far with "amnesiac" zlib for networking, too. You collect up writes in your out-buffer, and use zlib to compress it before transmission. The trick is that you don't retain context or find matches between chunks, so there's no memory overhead between sends.