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Info about "double-free" bug? — Nahum Reduta 15:23, 21 January 2007 (UTC) reply

"used in more than 500 applications" ( "MSN Messenger, Microsoft Office, QuickTime and Apache" ) reference Dr. Dobb's Journal - November 20, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.245.237 ( talk) 00:02, 26 November 2007 (UTC) reply

According to the PS4 page, zlib is implemented in hardware in the PS4 to decode blue ray. This article doesn't mention PS4 or blue ray. Garfieldnate ( talk) 22:08, 16 December 2013 (UTC) reply

When I look at the stats on https://www.osscensus.org/summary-report-public.php zlib is up front (today). It appears that zlib is a very common lib, is this fact worth mentioning? 59.101.72.254 ( talk) 10:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC) reply

As of 1/15/2020, the DEFLATE page states that DEFLATE is a file format, not an algorithm. It also states that most commonly Huffman coding is used, not LZ77. Not sure which article has the most accurate information. Pcraven ( talk) 20:44, 15 January 2020 (UTC) reply