Christine Hall on Nostr: Currently the LZ4 code in the kernel is effectively a fork of the upstream code that ...
Currently the LZ4 code in the kernel is effectively a fork of the upstream code that hasn't been updated since 2017~2018. Since then the LZ4 upstream code has seen bug fixes as well as performance optimizations: Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-ResyncPublished at
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