From: Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T05:29:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23748] Re: Some inspirations from REBOL

> zlib gets installed with the Win Installer.
> 
> Tobi

Ah yes, I just checked this.  Well then maybe all my whining and
complaining was unwarranted (except maybe concerning Ruby performance.)

I'm not really all that eager to write zlib in Ruby anyhow since it is
very tedious and kind of hard to test.  But it still might be
interesting as a comparison.  But as Robert mentioned maybe LZO would be
better (at least to start.)  I would be interested to see how a Ruby LZO
decompressor compares in performance to the Java version (which on 1.1.7
without a JIT was getting something like 1.4 MB/s throughput compared to
58 MB/s for the C code.)  This is according to the Java LZO README.  I'd
do my own benchmarks of course using the newest Java with the fancy
Hotspot VM.

Ryan Leavengood