[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.3.7 available for testing

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Jan 24, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> just a note : to compile asm code, there are some commands to do (cp, make with options, etc..) Would it be possible to have an option to configure to automatically doing the correct commands when running just make ?
>
> Vincent,
>
> Which asm code should we do that for?  There are several (about seven?) in the contrib directory.

i don't know. Looking at a Makefile, I saw that assembler files could be 
compiled. That's all.

> If I make it built-in to make, then it effectively becomes part of the 
> base zlib, not a contribution.  Have others tested the assembler code 
> extensively enough to know it doesn't have any bugs?
>
> I do not object to it, if we believe that the assembler code is as 
> reliable as the C code it's replacing.

you also should test if it is worth using it (that is, if it is 
really faster).

In a project i've worked on, we used only asm files that could be compiled 
by nasm or yasm. They are widely available. It helped us for the 
portability. I don't know what is in contrib/

Vincent