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zlib::deflate_upper_bound

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

Synopsis

Defined in header <boost/beast/zlib/deflate_stream.hpp>

std::size_t
deflate_upper_bound(
    std::size_t bytes);
Description

This function makes a conservative estimate of the maximum number of bytes needed to store the result of compressing a block of data.

Parameters

Name

Description

bytes

The size of the uncompressed data.

Return Value

The maximum number of resulting compressed bytes.


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