Need a Faster Compressor
Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat May 21 14:51:47 PDT 2016
On Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 21:12:15 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The current one is effective, but slow:
>
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/backend/compress.c
>
> Anyone want to make a stab at making it faster? Changing the
> format is fair game, as well as down and dirty assembler if
> that's what it takes.
>
> So really, how good are you at fast code?
Is LZ4 acceptable ?
If so the current C implementation is hard to beat.
And maybe it's best to just copy it in.
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