GNU bug report logs - #21022
see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help gzip

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 23:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #8 received at 21022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, 21022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21022: see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques
 can help gzip
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.
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