Keep an eye on zlib-ng

[gdevenyi]

Good things are happening in the zlib world:
https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng

[hjmjohnson]

Also consider: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

[hjmjohnson]

See conversations related to this topic at:

This is a upstream ITK question, of which there's already some discussion:
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK#348

Also, https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng is trying to drag the "official" zlib implementation forward in a non-breaking way.

ANTsX/ANTs#702 (comment)

[hjmjohnson]

@gdevenyi It seems that this topic is gaining traction again. Do you have any recommendations?

[gdevenyi]

I'm currently implementing zlib-ng in ITK and also looking at updating Niftilib in ITK. That may involve me working on this.

[dzenanz]

zlib-ng in ITK is ready for a spin. It also increases compression speed for .nii.gz files.

[gdevenyi]

We shall continue to keep an eye on zlib-ng with the hopes of minimizing our divergence from the main codebase (when they merge the prefix code)

[dzenanz]

Prefix code is part of zlib-ng. Time to give this another look?