Check if reusing the encoder is worth it
rklaehn opened this issue · comments
A lot of effort has been spent reusing decoders. But encoders are always created from scratch. Check if reusing encoders is worth it, or if the benefit is marginal.
My hunch is that compression is such an expensive operation that avoiding the allocation of a few buffers does not make a big difference, unlike decompression with is very fast with zstd. If there is a difference, you are most likely to see it with low zstd_level values.