Runtime: Add support for decompresing data in ReadOnlySpan<byte> with Deflate algorithm

[lukaskabrt]

System.IO.Compression contains the DeflateStream class, that can decompress data from a stream. In case we have compressed data already loaded in a ReadOnlySpan<byte>, using DeflateStream might be little inefficient - we have to create a MemoryStream and this operation allocates a new array.

c# function Decompress(ReadOnlySpan<byte> block) { using(var stream = new MemoryStream(block.ToArray())) { using(var deflateStream = new DeflateStream(stream, CompressionMode.Decompress)) { Data = ... read from deflateStream } } }

It would be great, if the Deflate algorithm is exposed in the way that supports processing data from ReadOnlySpan<byte>

[karelz]

cc @stephentoub @KrzysztofCwalina

[KrzysztofCwalina]

Yes, we have such APIs in Brotli (see BrotliEncoder & BrotliDecoder in https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/25785). We should add similar APIs to Deflate/GZip.

cc: @ianhays, @joshfree

[stephentoub]

In case we have compressed data already loaded in a ReadOnlySpan, using DeflateStream might be little inefficient - we have to create a MemoryStream and this operation allocates a new array.

That isn't the only option; you can create an UnmanagedMemoryStream from it (pinning the span with fixed) and then there's no extra array needed.

And if you have the data as a Memory instead of a Span, you can either do that or create a MemoryStream that wraps the original array if TryGetArray returns one.

[karelz]

Duplicate of dotnet/runtime#16923