On 3/12/2016 12:24 AM, Stephan Beal wrote:
Someone (Baruch?) posted a link to the now-official github site, but
AFAICS it's not actively maintained. i mailed the guy a couple of times
with C89 portability patches and got no response, but IIRC Baruch
reported getting a response from him.
In any case, i tend to agree - if it's not maintained, we should drop it
because it's not a piece "just anyone" can get their fingers in and tweak.
Googling around led me to this interesting study of raw performance of a
handful of compression libraries, including both miniz and zlib.
Interestingly, they are dead tied in these benchmarks. I haven't looked
too carefully, but I think this was a survey of the compression field,
not restricted to libraries producing zlib-compatible bitstreams or
restricted to matching the zlib API.
http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2012/09/09-15-12-some-compression-comparison.html
It also led me to blog posts from miniz's author. He does seem to still
be alive, but miniz may be dormant. He does seem to still be very
interesting in compression. Here's a recent post making a startling
claim. I haven't studied his argument carefully yet, but he drew pretty
pictures from the data and I love cool data viz pr0n...
http://richg42.blogspot.com/2016/01/zlib-in-serious-danger-of-becoming.html
This is all an aside and distraction. I'm not convinced that fossil
benefits particularly from anything less than a radical improvement in
compression ratio, and likely hardly at all from compression speed.
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