[Zlib-devel] Parallel zlib

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> schrieb:

Hi,

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

That's IMHO the way to go.
 
> 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.

But please make this a _new_ library (NOT called "libz.*"!),
otherwise you'll introduce enormous semantic changes to 
applications never expecting it. That would force a fork.


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