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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Tried that long ago.  As BLK_SIZE is increased the adler32 cost, which 
> has to be computed for every offset in the target buffer, increases 
> accordingly.  So you end up with both worse compression and more CPU 
> usage.

Ah, I was not paying enough attention.  I did not realize
destination scanning was done for every byte.