Re: Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-02 18:48:45

On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 12:52 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
> > I think Christian meant adding a compression abstraction library above
> zlib,
> > bz2, zip, etc?
>
> Pretty sure he meant our own implementations of "well known" compression
> algorithms.
>

That's even worse, as we would be throwing away twenty five years of
optimizations in the decompressor, much of which is written in assembly
language for various architectures. Is he proposing we rewrite all of that?
This is not a sound engineering practice to me.

Thanks