zlib.Deflater.Strategy

Property declaration

 Dim Strategy As Integer

Gets and sets the compression Strategy for the stream. Can be changed at any time. The compression strategy can be one of these constants:

Name	Comment
Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY	Use a combination of string-matching and Huffman Encoding. Suitable for general purposes.
Z_RLE	Use run-length encoding, which is like string-matching but with a window of only 1 byte. Suitable for data containing long sequences of identical bytes.
Z_FILTERED	Emphasize Huffman Encoding over string-matching. Suitable for data containing few identical sequences of bytes.
Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY	Force Huffman Encoding only. Suitable for data containing even fewer identical sequences of bytes.
Z_FIXED	Use the fixed Huffman codes defined in RFC1951#3.2.6.

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