Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:24:01 -0400 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > There are lots of obscure compression formats that achieve somewhat > better compression at the cost of MUCH more time (neglecting they are > not too open), such as MS CAB and ACE.
CAB is an archive container format, not a compression algorithm. Last time I worked on some code to handle it, they used the standard LZW algorithm implemented by gzip ( but had the ability to support others in the future ) and could only compress 32kb blocks. The small block size led to poor compression.
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