From: Clifford Heath <cjh-nospam@...>
Date: 2004-10-22T11:30:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed gap between zcat and zlib's GzipReader

David G. Andersen wrote:
> Yowza.  Before I poke more, is this expected, or a known
> slowness issue?

I had a similar problem which was discussed here at length a year or
so ago. If you avoid the block setup and use a fixed-length read, it's
quite a bit quicker. Still nowhere near as fast as Perl though :-(.