[Zlib-devel] [0/4][RFC Introduction] Adler32 vectorization

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Jan Seiffert wrote:
> 2011/4/3 Mike Frysinger:
>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Jan Seiffert wrote:
>>> So today i want to send some patches as a test balloon to get the ball rolling.
>>
>> you running a git tree somewhere ?
>
> No, i use bzr to manage that. And unfort. ATM no external hosting.
>
>>  i could throw the patchset into an unstable Gentoo ebuild and see if people complain ;).
>
> I am not that concerned for x86 and ppc. And every arch which does not
> have a special impl.
> But everything else...
> I think that's not even OK for "Hard Masked", since it can screw
> peoples system so badly, they can not even recover (because they can
> not downgrade anymore).

it's easy to make it run some sanity tests before allowing it to be
merged.  plus, why wouldnt they be able to downgrade ?  zlib tarball
is compressed with gzip, and gzip works without zlib.
-mike