[Zlib-devel] pigz 2.1.4 available

[Mark Adler]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:45 PM, Michael Han wrote:
> Essentially the same with what ZLIB is using, just 8 way look up
> instead of 4.

I will consider adding a BYEIGHT section of code to crc32.c.

> However, the longest_match, which turns out a hot spot during
> compression, is left intact.

Darn.  That's really the only code that matters for the speed of  
compression.

> Also take a look at the deflate implementation in 7z library.

That's on my to-do list, but it's not high priority.

On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Michael Han wrote:
> Is there any short term plan to port pigz to windows?

I don't have a windows system, so I can't do it.  All of the pthread  
calls are isolated in yarn.c for just this reason.  All someone would  
need to do is write a different yarn.c that uses windows' native  
thread functions.

Mark