[Zlib-devel] update for zlib 1.2.3.9 - project and assembly code

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:39:19PM +0100, Gilles Vollant wrote:
> basically, for x86, there is only one "today" assembly code for x86 32 bits
> (from pentium pro to current cpu) and another for x86 64 bits
> the pentium/586 version is deprecated...

Right, but there's a large number of actual x86 implementations out
there with varying performance characteristics.   Deploying this would
mean at least working out which of these got some meaningful benefit
from the new code and you still then have the additional cost of having
to support at least two completely separate implementations of the
algorithm on an ongoing basis.