[Zlib-devel] pigz 1.6 available for testing

[Greg Roelofs]

Mark,

> I fixed pigz so that even when using threads, the last block no  
> longer ends with empty deflate blocks.  (There are still intermediate  
> empty deflate blocks when using threads.)

Excellent...

>> Now the sole difference is in the flag or window-
>> size byte (78 9c vs. 78 5e), and I don't care about that.

> That's just the indication of the compression level used, to aid in  
> guessing at the value of attempting a re-compression.  The first one  
> indicates a fast compression level was used, whereas the second  
> indicates that the default compression level was used.

Interesting.  I wrote my lame zlibcomp program so long ago, I no longer
have any idea what settings I used.  But I'm a little surprised it used
"fast"--normally I pick either the default or max compression.

Greg