I do have branches with other zlibs. I don't have shiny graphs for them handy on this computer, but zlib-ng wasn't the first, just the one that someone specifically asked about on a bug on Github so I had some graphs for it.
It was mostly an experiment because gzip producing different results on different OSes annoyed me. - Rich On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 6:21 PM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday April 10 2022 18:52:07 Matthew Ahrens via openzfs-developer > wrote: > >gzip update > >Kidding… > >…but I really did experiment with it. > >Tried benchmarking a few different zlib forks instead of Linux builtin, > none were compellingly different so far > >Quick and dirty graphs of zlib-ng, which was the most different, here > >Seems like at best maybe the decompressor might be worth examining, and > the SIMD improvements don’t seem to make much difference for our use cases. > > It's been a while since I compared standard zlib with zlib-ng but my > findings were largely the same. IIRC zlib-ng don't aim for better > performance but for more features. Faster performance zlib is CloudFlare > turf. > > R > > ------------------------------------------ > openzfs: openzfs-developer > Permalink: > https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tde9acb4c64be171e-Me510ffde47f6cd17558e8bbb > Delivery options: > https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription > ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/Tde9acb4c64be171e-M0a6b71c18adc38d857340163 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription