Need a Faster Compressor

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/22/2016 2:07 AM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 08:50:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/21/2016 11:26 PM, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>>> With 1 Million iterations:
>>>
>>> new_compress: TickDuration(311404604)
>>> id_compress   TickDuration(385806589)
>>>
>>>  Approx 20% increase in speed (if i'm reading and did this right).
>>
>> It is promising. Need more!
>
>  Well there's other good news. While I was working with about 2Mb for the data
> size in general, it can be reduced it looks like to about 8k-16k, and run
> entirely on the stack. It doesn't appear to gain any speed, or any speed gained
> is lost with better memory management.
>
>  Although based on how things look, the id_compress might perform better with a
> max window of 255 and max match of 127. I'll give the original one a tweak based
> on my own findings and see if it turns out true.
>
>

There's also https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5799 which should make things faster.