Peter Eisentraut wrote:
c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent me from
   changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)?

copyright licenses and patents
Would it be possible to have a plugin facility?

I guess the most likely candidate is the LZJB mechanism in ZFS which is CDDL licensed.

Would that be compatible in contrib, if not in the main source?

James


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