On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:13:57AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > From a distribution point of view, we don't like bundled dependencies. > However, as I see it, libslz is an internal lib (like ebtree), so I > don't think this is really a problem. Moreover, we don't have the > external lib in Debian, so there is no duplicate work.
OK makes sense, thanks! > Is there any > practical advantage of keeping using zlib (for a user)? For a user, it can be beneficial in situations with very low bandwidth internet accesses and where memory, CPU usage, and latency are not an issue. In this case, using zlib at level 9 with extremely large buffers could significantly improve the compression ratio and save on load time for compressible contents. But we're speaking about bitrates in the few tens of megabits/s here, for few concurrent connections and mostly text based contents. I would consider that it's such a niche usage that it's something the user should be the one having to rebuild for, and not be considered the default. Willy
