zlib-ng

• --without-unaligned improves safety; has been removed as of 2.2.3
• configure depends on bash, but can be patched easily
• libdeflate is faster than zlib-ng but is not a drop-in replacement for zlib
• Use --without-vpclmulqdq for x86-64-v3 as VPCLMULQDQ is part of x86-64-v4 (AVX-512)
• Parts of sortix’s libz made their way into zlib-ng
• zlib-ng is api compatible with zlib when zlib-compat is used; however, it is not abi compatible meaning applications must be recompiled against it
• Uses CHOST and CROSS_PREFIX internally?

References

• https://github.com/ebiggers/libdeflate
• https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/17167
• https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/3
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37270631
• https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/?visible-plugins=zlib,zlib-ng
• https://sortix.org/libdeflate/