zlib-ng: A Next-Gen Data Compression Library
2025-03-16
zlib-ng is a modernized fork of the popular zlib compression library, improving performance, maintainability, and portability. It incorporates optimizations from Intel and Cloudflare, and supports a wide range of CPU instruction sets such as AVX-512 and ARM NEON. zlib-ng aims to coexist with zlib, offering a lower barrier to code changes and supporting CMake and multiple build systems.
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