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 23:06:35

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM Christian Mazakas via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng
>
> Seems like someone already beat us to the punch and went ahead and
> re-implemented all of zlib for some decent gains, it seems.
>

Yes, this library is well known. It is a fork of zlib with performance
improvements added. It is not "reimplemented all of zlib," and it is not
"adding a compression abstraction library above zlib" (which you alluded to
earlier). The best analogy is to think of zlib-ng as what asio would be if
the people who depend on asio got tired of issues and pull requests being
ignored and decided to fork their own version called asio-ng.

Thanks