Need a Faster Compressor

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 14:05:23 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> ⬅ Download proof of concept
>
> This is a proof of concept micro-benchmark compressing the 
> 37_640 bytes symbol from the bug report linked above with both 
> id_compress from the dmd backend and lz4 (without dictionary). 
> The lz4 result is additionally transformed to 7-bits similar to 
> base-64.
>
> Original size: 37640 bytes
>
> id_compress : 5243 ms for 10_000 iterations, 800 bytes
> lz4         :   71 ms for 10_000 iterations, 389 bytes
>
> That roughly corresponds to a 2x higher compression ratio at 
> 70x faster compression speed.

Please submit a PR.