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Roc DEFLATE library roc-deflate comes within 8.9% of C's libdeflate

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On October 24, Hacker News featured a performance comparison between roc-deflate, a DEFLATE compression library written in Roc, and the C library libdeflate. On the Silesia corpus benchmark, roc-deflate was slower overall: a median 8.9% slower on a Ryzen 3900X and 2.6% slower on an M1 MacBook Pro. Results varied by input, with the worst case 18% slower and the best case 18% faster.

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LatestOct 24 11:43
On the Silesia benchmark, roc-deflate ran a median 8.9% slower than libdeflate on Ryzen and 2.6% slower on M1.

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Oct 24
  1. Hacker News front page
    How close can pure functional programming get to C?

    用 Roc 语言实现的 DEFLATE 压缩库 roc-deflate 在 Silesia 语料库基准测试中，平均比 C 语言库 libdeflate 慢，Ryzen 3900X 上中位数慢 8.9%，M1 MacBook Pro 上慢 2.6%，最差输入慢 18%，但最佳输入反快 18%。

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