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SubjectRe: Swap Compression
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JXrn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> writes:

> Yes, zlib eats up several 100k of memory. You really notice this when
> you add it to a bootloader that was (once) supposed to be small. :)

I only measured about 32k for decompression. But that was using
the variant from gzip via the kernel.

The really small algorithm I know about (at least for decompression)
is upx. The compression is comparable with gzip with a decompressor
that can fit in a page or two of assembly code.

Probably irrelevant at this juncture but...

Eric

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