My kneejerk reaction is that (1) performance improvements like this should be put into zlib, as opposed to gzip proper, and that (2) gzip should be changed to use zlib instead of having an independent version of the compression algorithm. Does this sound feasible to you? I can look into (2) at some point, anyway; I'm pretty sure it's doable.
- [PATCH] deflate.c: identify slide_Pos() for later optimization John Reiser
- Re: [PATCH] deflate.c: identify slide_Pos() for later opt... Paul Eggert
