Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:51:40 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch? |
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Daniel Egger wrote:
>Am Sam, den 18.10.2003 schrieb Nick Piggin um 07:30: > > >>This came up on the list a while back. IIRC the conclusion was that >>runtime memory usage and speed, and not so significant compression >>improvement over gzip. >> > >I quick test with a PowerPC kernel and the normal vmlinux image reveals >that this is nonsense. > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2766490 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1149410 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.gz >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1062999 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.bz2 > >This is a 86411 bytes or 8.1% reduction, seems significant to me... >
Sure, it might be worth it in some cases. I didn't mean improvement wasn't measurable at all.
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