Re: Need a Faster Compressor

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 21:12:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

The current one is effective, but slow:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/backend/compress.c

Anyone want to make a stab at making it faster? Changing the format is fair game, as well as down and dirty assembler if that's what it takes.

So really, how good are you at fast code?

Is LZ4 acceptable ?
If so the current C implementation is hard to beat.
And maybe it's best to just copy it in.