Re: [boost] Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM Christian Mazakas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

Seems like someone already beat us to the punch and went ahead and re-implemented all of zlib for some decent gains, it seems.

Yes, this library is well known. It is a fork of zlib with performance improvements added. It is not "reimplemented all of zlib," and it is not "adding a compression abstraction library above zlib" (which you alluded to earlier). The best analogy is to think of zlib-ng as what asio would be if the people who depend on asio got tired of issues and pull requests being ignored and decided to fork their own version called asio-ng. Thanks