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SubjectRe: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
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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