I do see a PR open for swappable gzip implementations, but that is open for several months. I don't mind if that goes in as long as I can replace the standard library implementation.
It is my hope that this will be upstreamed. Otherwise we would just have to fork this ourselves. Gzipping is a very intensive operation in our workload and this is a great cheap way to get some gains.
This gives 40-50% improvements in CPU with very minor increase in memory, just as a drop-in replacement. I think that is a very reasonable tradeoff.
The library is mature and safe to be used in production.
I do see a PR open for swappable gzip implementations, but that is open for several months. I don't mind if that goes in as long as I can replace the standard library implementation.
It is my hope that this will be upstreamed. Otherwise we would just have to fork this ourselves. Gzipping is a very intensive operation in our workload and this is a great cheap way to get some gains.