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Benchmarks

11 Jan 2021 - Amazon - Improving zlib cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks
* Focuses on zlib-cloudflare and zlib-madler only.

* Includes zlib-ng in benchmarks, where zlib-ng beats everyone in most of shown compression speed tests.


27 May 2016 - Cbloom Rants - PS4 Battle : MiniZ vs Zlib-NG vs ZStd vs Brotli vs Oodle
* Only known benchmark against zstd.


18 Sep 2015 - Squash Compression Benchmark - https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/
* Benchmarks of a very old zlib-ng, ignored our advice, so runs with all optimizations disabled, resulting in speeds nearly equal to zlib.

Detailed articles / papers

  • None yet

Short articles

16 Mar 2021 - Phoronix - Zlib-ng 2.0 Released As More Performant + Modern Zlib Fork
28 Apr 2023 - Phoronix - Zlib "Next Generation" Preparing Massive Decompression Speed-Up
22 Oct 2023 - Phoronix - Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM Optimizations

Forum posts

17 Mar 2021 - OpenNET - First stable release of zlib-ng, a high-performance fork of zlib
05 Jun 2015 - OpenNET - The zlib-ng project develops a high-performance fork of zlib
05 Jun 2015 - Hacker News - Zlib-ng: a performance-oriented fork of zlib