Microsoft open sources pigzpp: Fast, parallel C++23 compression tool
jedisct1 · x · 2026-08-27
Microsoft has released pigzpp, a parallel gzip tool rewritten in C++23. It serves as both a command-line utility (a drop-in replacement for gzip/pigz) and a library callable from Python, WebAssembly, C++, Go, and Rust. Built on a SIMD-accelerated (zlib-ng) and hand-tuned assembly core, pigzpp offers significant speed improvements, up to 8.5× faster than pigz.
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