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// This file implements a multi-threaded zlib compression routine.
//
// Multiple pieces of raw compressed data in zlib-format can be merged
// just by concatenation as long as each zlib streams are flushed with
// just by concatenation as long as each zlib stream is flushed with
// Z_SYNC_FLUSH. In this file, we split input data into multiple
// shards, compress them individually and concatenate them. We then
// append a header and a trailer so that the concatenated data is
// valid zlib-format data.
// append a header, a trailer and a checksum so that the concatenated
// data is valid zlib-format data.
//
// Using threads to compress data has a downside. Since the dictionary
// is reset on boundaries of shards, compression ratio is sacrificed