zlib acceleration?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Wednesday May 27 2015 17:19:01 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> 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.

Intel hasn't been the only one working on this:

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2014-08-04-comparison-of-intel-and-cloudflare-zlib-patches.html
https://github.com/cloudflare/zlib/tree/gcc.amd64

I'll run the benchmark from the snellman site, and then see if it's worthwhile to come up with a patch.

> I don't think bsdtar does, at least it won't use lzip from macports. I just 

bsdtar from port:libarchive certainly does use the lzip from macports ...

R