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

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:51:24 -0700

On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fights-cancer/
>

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.