[Zlib-devel] Re: zlib-1.2.0.f-cos2

[Greg Roelofs]

> Greg: in contrib\masmx86, different implementations of longest_match()
> are selected on the fly. True, you cannot select those by yourself, but
> an ASM implementation can be accompanied by a function that allows to
> select the user's preference, then match_init() can take care of the
> initialization. Otherwise, in the standard code base, match_init() is
> just an empty stub.

For my interest--doing performance tests against various optimizing C
compilers (i.e., trying to determine whether any of the assembler code
is useful these days)--automatic selection isn't useful.  But for most
people that's probably the best approach.

Greg