zlib acceleration?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 28, 2015, at 3:30 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Thursday May 28 2015 00:14:14 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> When the Phoronix article was written, this was being discussed on the zlib ML and that's about 2 years ago. If no patches were included in that time, and even a 2nd party felt the need to develop their own, I think it'd be a waste of time to try that route.

That was kind of my point.


> Not without some additional evidence that the patch works and has an interest without drawbacks, which could come from deploying it through MacPorts for a while.

I'm not comfortable with making MacPorts users involuntary testers for unofficial code in a fundamental library like zlib. Maybe you can include it in your own private copy of zlib, and based on your experiences running that, you can make recommendations to the developers. But if the developers don't believe it should be included, then I don't feel we should second-guess them.