svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd

[Allan Jude]

On 2017-04-15 19:37, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> And we need this in base for what great purpose???
> 

It is a new faster compression algorithm from the creator of LZ4, Yann
Collet.

It offers compression ratios similar or great than gzip, but 4-6x faster
compression, and 2-3x faster decompression (in excess of 1 gigabyte per
second per core).

It will be used in ZFS shortly, and is expected to supplant gzip/bzip2
for compressed kernel/memdisk in the loader for pxeboot / iscsi boot etc.


> 
>> Author: bapt
>> Date: Sat Apr 15 20:05:22 2017
>> New Revision: 316978
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/316978
>>
>> Log:
>>   Import zstandard 1.1.4 in base
>>   
>>   zstandard is a new compression library/tool which is very fast at
>>   compression/decompression
>>   
>>   For now import as a private library
>>


-- 
Allan Jude

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