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see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help gzip

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Message #11 received at 21022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark Adler <madler <at> alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc: 21022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: Re: bug#21022: see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques
 can help gzip
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 <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 

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