Zlib-rs as a Rust programming language implementation of the Zlib file format for better safety is now beginning to outperform the C implementations of the widely-used Zlib. Zlib-rs 0.4.2 was released last week and notes in the release announcement: "Lots of performance improvements. We're now substantially faster than other implementations for inflate (decompression), and faster in the most important cases for compression." The Trifecta Tech Foundation that develops Zlib-rs also put out a lengt...