in encode.go [20:43]
func Encode(dst, src []byte) []byte {
if n := MaxEncodedLen(len(src)); n < 0 {
panic(ErrTooLarge)
} else if len(dst) < n {
dst = make([]byte, n)
}
// The block starts with the varint-encoded length of the decompressed bytes.
d := binary.PutUvarint(dst, uint64(len(src)))
for len(src) > 0 {
p := src
src = nil
if len(p) > maxBlockSize {
p, src = p[:maxBlockSize], p[maxBlockSize:]
}
if len(p) < minNonLiteralBlockSize {
d += emitLiteral(dst[d:], p)
} else {
d += encodeBlock(dst[d:], p)
}
}
return dst[:d]
}