On Monday, November 10, 2014 8:39:41 PM UTC-5, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > Google's Snappy library has a 64-bit API, but seems to also be limited to > 32-bit sizes internally, as is the LZ4 library. Kind of surprising that so > many people would independently limit themselves to 32-bit buffers nowadays. >
Snappy's only excuse was backwards compatibility: https://code.google.com/p/snappy/issues/detail?id=76
