[issue41566] Include much faster DEFLATE implementations in Python's gzip and zlib libraries. (isa-l)

Tue Aug 18 02:16:59 EDT 2020

Ruben Vorderman <r.h.p.vorderman at lumc.nl> added the comment:

> That might be an option then. CPython could use the existing library if it is available.

Dynamic linking indeed seems like a great option here! Users who care about this will probably have the 'isal' and 'libdeflateO' packages installed on their machine anyway. I packaged isa-l on conda-forge, so it is available via the anaconda/miniconda installer.

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