AWS Open Source Blog
Author: Janakarajan Natarajan
Janakarajan is Systems Development Engineer at AWS (Annapurna Labs) working on Graviton processors in Austin, Texas. Prior to joining AWS he worked at AMD for 4 years doing Linux kernel development for EPYC processors.
Improving zlib-cloudflare and comparing performance with other zlib forks
We worked with the maintainers of the Cloudflare fork of zlib (zlib-cloudflare) to improve the decompression performance on Arm and x86. With the changes, at level 6: On Arm: Compression performance: ~90 percent faster than zlib-madler (original zlib). Decompression performance: ~52 percent faster than zlib-madler. On x86: Compression performance: ~113 percent faster than zlib-madler. Decompression […]