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by allerratio 4862 days ago
What would be nice is a library that you can load with LD_Preload and replaces zlib compression. That way I could easily use e.g. Optipng with this new algorithm.
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lucian1900 4862 days ago
I don't think that would be of much use, since only it only deals with compression.
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allerratio 4862 days ago
It only needs to overwrite the compression methods
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lucian1900 4862 days ago
Right, but compressors are easy to change, it's decompressors that are in hard-to-update software.
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allerratio 4861 days ago
Also the compression for example in libpng
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