isal

isal (python-isal) provides faster zlib and gzip compatible compression and decompression by offering Python bindings for the Intel® Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library (ISA-L). It includes `isal_zlib` and `igzip` as high-performance, largely drop-in replacements for the standard library's `zlib` and `gzip` modules, respectively, along with `igzip_threaded` for multi-threaded streaming and `igzip_lib` for direct ISA-L API access. The current version is 1.8.0, and it maintains an active development and release cadence.