There is another nice multi-core gzip based library called BGZF[1]. It is commonly used in bioinformatics. BGZF has the added advantage that it is block compres

There is another nice multi-core gzip based library called BGZF[1]. It is commonly used in bioinformatics. BGZF has the added advantage that it is block compressed with built in indexing method to permit seeking in compressed files. [1] https://github.com/samtools/htslib https://github.com/samtools/htslib