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zlib::deflate_stream::upper_bound
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zlib::deflate_stream::upper_bound

Returns the upper limit on the size of a compressed block.

Synopsis 
std::size_t
upper_bound(
    std::size_t sourceLen) const;
Description

This function makes a conservative estimate of the maximum number of bytes needed to store the result of compressing a block of data based on the current compression level and strategy.

Parameters

Name

Description

sourceLen

The size of the uncompressed data.

Return Value

The maximum number of resulting compressed bytes.

Copyright © 2016-2019 Vinnie Falco

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

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