Blog posts for `zlib-rs`

• 2025-04-15 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs simd

  SIMD in zlib-rs (part 1): Autovectorization and target features

  I'm fascinated by the creative use of SIMD instructions. When you first learn about SIMD, it is clear that doing more multiplications in a single instruction is useful for speeding up matrix multiplication. But how can all of these weird instructions be used to solve problems that aren't just arithmetic?

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• 2025-02-25 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression

  zlib-rs is faster than C

  We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs, featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.

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• 2024-11-19 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression

  The fastest WASM zlib

  This year we started work on zlib-rs, an implementation of Zlib in Rust, with the goal of maintaining excellent performance while introducing memory safety.

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• 2024-11-07 Author: Erik Jonkers zlib-rs data compression

  Trifecta Tech Foundation is the new home for memory safe zlib

  Today we're pleased to announce that the recently developed open source memory safe implementation of zlib – zlib-rs – initiated by ISRG's Prossimo project now has a new long-term home at our Trifecta Tech Foundation.

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• 2024-08-08 Author: Folkert de Vries zlib-rs data compression

  Current zlib-rs performance

  Our zlib-rs project implements a drop-in replacement for libz.so, a dynamic library that is widely used to perform gzip (de)compression.

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• 2024-04-28 zlib-rs source: github.com/rust-lang

  flate2 release v1.0.29 with new `zlib-rs` feature

  With the new zlib-rs feature, a new backend is enabled that brings in a SIMD-accelerated Rust implementation.

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