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Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)

dougallj.wordpress.com published 2022-08-20

DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

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