Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 09:26:16 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well that's attractive-looking code.
It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :)
> Why is this needed? What code plans to use it?
I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup and 40% improvement on file read speed, with only a slight drop in the file compression ratio (when compared to zlib).
> How many buffer overruns are there in it?
That I'm afraid I cannot tell you.
-- dwmw2
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