[Zlib-devel] Google's version of zlib code

[Mark Adler]

On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:04 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, but - 
> 
> There will be some people for whom a 5% size improvement will be *huge*.
> People shipping on physical media, for example.

Again I would ask why someone would use deflate-based compression for shipping something on physical media.  That is a perfect example of compress-once, decompress-many for which a more capable compression approach should be used.

Mark