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Zlib-rs is faster than C

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341 points dochtman | 2 comments | 16 Mar 25 19:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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IshKebab ◴[16 Mar 25 19:55 UTC] No.43381686[source]▶
It's barely faster. I would say it's more accurate to say it's as fast as C, which is still a great achievement.
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1. throwaway48476 ◴[16 Mar 25 19:56 UTC] No.43381694[source]▶
But it is faster. The closer to theoretical maximum the smaller the gains become.
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2. mananaysiempre ◴[16 Mar 25 20:02 UTC] No.43381768[source]▶
Zlib-ng is between a couple and multiple times away from the state of the art[1], it’s just that nobody has yet done the (hard) work of adjusting libdeflate[2] to a richer API than “complete buffer in, complete buffer out”.

[1] https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/1486

[2] https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate