Antoine Pitrou schrieb am 17.08.20 um 15:00: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:49:23 -0000 > "Ruben Vorderman" 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.
I re-opened the ticket to allow for some discussion over there in order to understand the implications better. But I agree that a third-party package on PyPI seems like a good first step, also as a backport. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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/6SOR62YK7A32L62V26VVEE7EZSIM5E6U/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
