Coding up a circular buffer with Jez

August 21, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos]

More coding with Jez and Andy. We're continuing working on our gunzip clone: we know we will need to be able to look back while we are encoding at recently-written bytes, so this time we're writing a look-back buffer. We could use a crate to provide a circular buffer, but what would be the fun in that?

The code is at https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/ggunzip.

Read Jez's blog at https://www.jezuk.co.uk/

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