As a side note, there already is a gzip replacement that I wrote that uses zlib and that also provides parallel compression called pigz.
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 07/09/2015 04:31 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-fights-cancer/ >> > > A few years ago I started to rewrite gzip to use zlib rather than to do its > own compression and decompression. If we finished that, we could use > cloudfare's zlib implementation trivially. > > >
