[Zlib-devel] Some more performance results

[Paul Marquess]

I've redone my performance tests using the rewrite of the Perl interface to
zlib I'm in the middle of doing. One of the things that has allowed me to do
is have much greater control over the amount of buffer copying/realoc'ing
that is going on.

With that I'm seeing a much more consistent times regardless of the buffer
size and no hotspots with 1.1.4. I think that confirms my suspicion with the
last test results -- malloc was the culprit.

Here are the relative values I'm seeing

1.1.4				5.83
beta5 POSTINC		4.87
beta5				4.76
beta3				4.67
beta2 			4.56
beta3 POSTINC		4.55


I'm running Linux on a 2.5G Pentium 4 with 256Meg of RAM.

cheers
Paul