Buffer Types

The zstandard module exposes a handful of custom types for interfacing with memory buffers. The primary goal of these types is to facilitate efficient multi-object operations.

The essential idea is to have a single memory allocation provide backing storage for multiple logical objects. This has 2 main advantages: fewer allocations and optimal memory access patterns. This avoids having to allocate a Python object for each logical object and furthermore ensures that access of data for objects can be sequential (read: fast) in memory.

BufferSegment

.. autoclass:: zstandard.BufferSegment
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BufferSegments

.. autoclass:: zstandard.BufferSegments
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BufferWithSegments

.. autoclass:: zstandard.BufferWithSegments
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BufferWithSegmentsCollection

.. autoclass:: zstandard.BufferWithSegmentsCollection
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