zlib acceleration?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 27, 2015, at 8:56 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> 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.

Instead of trying to add a patch for this to MacPorts, I would rather you work with the developers of zlib on including the changes into zlib itself, and then getting the developers of zlib to release a new version. Then we can update MacPorts zlib to that version. I don't feel it's MacPorts' responsibility to decide what new features should go into any given package; that's for the developers of that software to decide.