Gzip Compression Tool

This Rust program compresses a specified file using gzip compression and writes the compressed data to a target file. It provides information about the size of the source and target files and the time taken for the compression process.

Requirements

• Rust (latest stable version recommended)
• flate2 crate

Installation

1. Install Rust by following the instructions at rust-lang.org.
2. Add the flate2 crate to your Cargo.toml:

   [dependencies]
   flate2 = "1.0.24"

Usage

1. Clone this repository or download the source code.
2. Navigate to the project directory.
3. Build the project:

   cargo build --release

4. Run the program with the source and target file paths as arguments:

   cargo run --release source_file target_file

Example

cargo run --release input.txt output.gz