Bug 950765

Summary:	perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib: Support building against sys-libs/zlib-ng
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yorhel <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Yorhel 2025-03-08 06:52:17 UTC

Compress-Raw-Zlib has an option to use zlib-ng to provide a significant performance boost. sys-libs/zlib-ng is available in the repos, so a USE flag to link against it would be very nice.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Yorhel 2025-03-20 08:36:26 UTC

Aaaactually, let me deprioritize this request in favor of #905376, which is more ambitious but offers a far more general solution. I ended up using libdeflate instead for the immediate use case I had in mind when opening this issue, so, while a faster Compress::Raw::Zlib might still offer benefits elsewhere, it's likely not worth spending time to optimize just this one case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 905376 ***