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bug#33070: Underlying Gzip library
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#33070: Underlying Gzip library |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:51:21 +0300 |
tags 33070 + notabug
close 33070
thanks
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:59 AM Mark Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
> The library you speak of was created about 23 years ago. It’s called “zlib”.
> That TODO file looks like it hasn’t changed much in the last quarter century.
>
> As for gzip making use of that library, that has not yet occurred. And
> probably doesn’t need to. There does exist another implementation of gzip
> called “pigz” which in fact uses zlib for compression and decompression. (It
> also offers parallel compression.)
Thanks for replying, Mark.
On that basis, I'll close this auto-created "issue", but that needn't
stop any conversation.
Feel free to reply on this thread.