Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:14:26 -0700 > From: Patrick Walton <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rust-dev] GZip and Deflate > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 11/1/13 8:40 AM, Benjamin Striegel wrote: > > I can't answer your questions, but I do want to say that this is very > > interesting! > > > > > Rust compression is about 1.8 times slower, decompression is about 3 > > times slower than gzip. > > > > Have you tried profiling this to see where our bottlenecks are? It would > > be great if we could use this as an opportunity to improve our > performance. > > It sounds like the problem is in miniz, so not in Rust code. > > (BTW, compile times for small crates are very gated on decompression of > metadata. Improvement of decompression speed improves compile times. > Although maybe we should just switch to Snappy or something.) > > Patrick > > I suspect that's the case but without profiling it's difficult to pinpoint the bottleneck.
Snappy looks interesting. I'll look into it later when I get some times.
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