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Zlib-ng 2.2 Speeds Up Compression By ~12% On x86_64 CPUs


The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing

The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing. It also ensures that zlib-ng can not fail due to memory pressure after having run the init functions successfully. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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