Re: Mysterious gzipped images

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

>> Emacs doesn't happen to have gunzip built in, by any chance?  >"?
>
> Indirectly.  (libpng links against libz.)

I see.  So we'd have get it "for free" in normal builds.  But we'd have
to add autoconf checks for it anyway, I guess?

I think it would be useful to have built-in libz support in Emacs.  When
fetching lots of small image files (which is quite common), I think that
calling inflate() would be a lot faster than calling the gunzip command
over pipes.  Probably.  Should I go ahead and implement this?

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