bug#67022: Re: bug#67022: Gzip decompression can be 60% faster using zlib's CRC32

[wrotycz]

> Mr. Wrotycz,   Mr Adler, let's spare the formalities. That's a 
nickname.   > > On Mar 13, 2024, at 6:14 PM, wrotycz < wrotycz@#$%...  
 I know it's a mail list but I would appreciate to not broadcast my email 
to every (spam)bot on the web. Archive is publicly available and easily 
searchable by boys, so next time don't quote someone's email in the 
message.   > I’m not sure what you mean by “bloated”   I mean 600[kB] of 
crc32.h. I know, there is a lot of conditionals (compilation)  that make it 
much smaller in  resulting object, but the sheer size of it makes me nausea. I 
guess, there is only one person that can understand flow of conditional 
directives in it. And crc32_z() is even more complicated in this regard.   To 
illustrate the difference between code of zlib and, what I consider 
comprehensible, compare code of xxhash and xxhash-clean.  I hope you 
understand.  > for CRC-32 does not use slice-by-8. It uses braids   I 
noticed the lookup table is 'upside down' but didn't know that 
thing.  And, again, due to level of complexity in the code, I didn't check 
it. I have this quirk that I want to understand stuff I use, here I 
couldn't so I didn't follow.   I will check that braids thing when I 
find something about it.   Regards