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bug#21022: see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help
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Jim Meyering |
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bug#21022: see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help gzip |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:00:53 -0700 |
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Mark Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
> As a side note, there already is a gzip replacement that I wrote that uses
> zlib and that also provides parallel compression called pigz.
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>> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fights-cancer/
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>> A few years ago I started to rewrite gzip to use zlib rather than to do its
>> own compression and decompression. If we finished that, we could use
>> cloudfare's zlib implementation trivially.
Hi Mark,
How close is pigz to being a strict superset of the functionality of gzip?
I.e., would we lose anything if we were to install pigz with the name gzip?