In the last episode (Oct 13), Tim Kientzle said:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >Meanwhile I had a quick look at the code: gzip uses some optimized
> >assembler code ... Maybe that's the reason why gzip is noticeably
> >faster.
>
> Anyone care to try this test on PPC, ARM, or Sparc?
The only assembly in our match.S is for x86 and 68k. Newer gzips also
include an ia64 version.
> There's a move afoot to replace the GPL gzip with a more
> openly-licensed gzip implemented on top of libz. I wonder if the
> libz implementors have similar assembly optimizations that we should
> be using?
Odd. I actually disabled the assembly file in my tree because gcc
generated 20%-faster code from deflate.c than the provided assembly
code in match.S , at least on a pIII.
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Dan Nelson
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