[Zlib-devel] Performance patch set

[Mark Adler]

Stefan,

Please package your patch as a file, since these things don't translate well in the body of an email.

On May 9, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> Inflate is now about 50% faster

Thank you for your work!  That is a major improvement.  I will give it a try and see how it does with gcc instead of msvc.

Changes of this magnitude leads me to think I should add you as a co-author of inffast.c if they are adopted.  I assume that you would agree to the zlib license in that case?

> * inftree.c: explicitly eliminate redundant memory
> accesses as at least MS VC is not able to do it
> (fearing pointer aliases?).

I don't understand this.  What is it that msvc is not able to do?

Please take a look at Joakim's inflate improvements, and see if you have already incorporated them, or if they should be integrated with yours for further speed improvements.

Mark