Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib
by legulere on Friday June 05, 2015 @07:28AM
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This makes me wonder what a good strategy would be for deprecating old architectures. Remove support for them in new versions and backport bugfixes to the last version supporting the old architectures indefinitely?
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Re:Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib
by TheCondor on Friday June 05, 2015 @07:58AM
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It's a more difficult issue with something like OpenSSL as new features are added. Zlib is done though, there is zero interest in sdding deflate64 or a different algorithm, they could just put a version on ice, keep it around for distribution and make a more clean 2.0