[chrismoos]

One of the main differences is this one uses lookup tables for faster decoding of Huffman compressed data as opposed to using a tree (which is what the stdlib one uses). It also offers some additional encoding options for users that want more control of header field indexing.

[bradfitz]

Yes, let's get your version into Go if it's better.

(I wrote Go's quickly. I've never profiled it, delaying that until Go 1.7, which opened for development yesterday)

[chrismoos]

If I'd like to get some of the enhancements in there, is this the route to go? https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html

[bradfitz]

Yup! That documentation is too daunting IMO but it's complete and not many steps, despite all the words. Especially if you're a Go programmer already. (just go get the code review tool)

I'd start with filing a bug against Go to track the overall process.

[tshannon]

This is why I love open source projects, and shows just how open source Go is.

Fantastic.

[Artemis2]

Why not contribute it to the Go projet, if this version is arguably better than the current implementation?