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SubjectRe: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?


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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