Subject: Re: bug#21022: see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help gzip

From: Mark Adler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:56:36 -0700

As a side note, there already is a gzip replacement that I wrote that uses zlib and that also provides parallel compression called pigz.

> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fights-cancer/
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> A few years ago I started to rewrite gzip to use zlib rather than to do its own compression and decompression.  If we finished that, we could use cloudfare's zlib implementation trivially.
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