On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:49:23 -0000 "Ruben Vorderman" <r.h.p.vorder...@lumc.nl> wrote: > Dear python developers, > > As a bioinformatician I work a lot with gzip-compressed data. Recently I > discovered Intel's Storage Acceleration Libraries at > https://github.com/intel/isa-l. These people implemented the DEFLATE and > INFLATE algorithms in assembly language. As a result it is much faster than > zlib. > > I have posted a few benchmarks in this python bug > https://bugs.python.org/issue41566. (I just discovered bugs.python.org is the > wrong place for feature requests. I am sorry, I am still learning about the > proper way of doing this things, as this is my first feature proposal). > The TLDR is that it can speed up compression by 5x while speeding up > compression by 3x compared to standard gzip. > > Isa-l is bsd-3-clause licensed and as such I see no licensing issues when > using it in CPython.
In any case, it should be simple enough to post a package on PyPI that exposes the desired wrapper APIs. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GLTVAI6A5JLBDNCSIEF3EDN6HC7FA64H/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
