Package flate implements the DEFLATE compressed data format, described in RFC 1951.
Package gzip implements reading and writing of gzip format compressed files, as specified in RFC 1952.
Package lzw implements the Lempel-Ziv-Welch compressed data format, described in T. A. Welch, “A Technique for High-Performance Data Compression”, Computer, 17(6) (June 1984), pp 8-19.
Package zlib implements reading and writing of zlib format compressed data, as specified in RFC 1950.
Package heap provides heap operations for any type that implements heap.Interface.