zlib acceleration?

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 09:50:47 PM René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just came across this:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUyNzY
> 
> The link to the zlib ML on that page has gone stale, so I can't check
> whether those Intel patches ever made it into zlib

The ChangeLog makes no mention of it so I guess not.

> zlib is used by afsctool and presumably also by bsdtar for the
> --hfsCompression feature, so any speed-up of zlib compression should reduce
> compression times in those applications (and presumably a lot of others).

I don't think bsdtar does, at least it won't use lzip from macports. I just 
had to install gnutar to get it to work.