[Zlib-devel] Parallel zlib

[Mark Adler]

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Of course, using hw parallelism is good thing. But _please_ make 
> a *NEW* library for that. Otherwise we'll be forced to fork :(

I could write a new threaded library that uses the zlib for compression within each thread, leaving zlib unthreaded.

On the other hand if the threading were built into zlib, I could make sure that it never launched threads unless explicitly requested by the application.

Which would people prefer?

Mark