Possible to migrate to zlib-ng?

[murlakatamenka]

zlib-ng is just faster in general and on modern hardware in particular:

https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

In my understanding it's a drop-in replacement, i.e. API/ABI compatible with zlib

Some projects move or consider moving to it:

• https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/101465
• https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-proposal-transitioning-to-zlib-ng-as-a-compatible-replacement-for-zlib-system-wide/95807

[soqb]

can confirm i just switched my (wip) fallout record parser to zlib-ng (from miniz_oxide) and it made parsing in general 8x faster (zlib decompression became 10x or something AFAIR).

never tried with traditional zlib but i imagine ng is still much faster.

[withthelemons]

Here's build with zlib-ng (develop branch, 80c541) I've only tested it on my machine and have no way to benchmark it, but it works and feels faster. I will appreciate it if you give it a try. The repository needs cleaning up, I just compiled zlib-ng locally and copied the binaries. We can merge it if @WallSoGB wants.

https://github.com/withthelemons/Fallout-zlibUpdate

[WallSoGB]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion and the fork.

Gave it a try, and somehow ng manages to be overall slower by 200ms (testing same as the original mod, that is time from NVSEMessagingInterface::kMessage_PreLoadGame to NVSEMessagingInterface::kMessage_PostLoadGame).

[withthelemons]

Thank you for trying it out. It's interesting that zlib-ng is slower, but not surprising since it's optimized for x86_64. If it's not too much trouble, could you tell me how to add timestamps logging so I can replicate it? I assume there's xNVSE plugin that adds it.