From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261194AbVFFHrr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:47:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261196AbVFFHrr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:47:47 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:59785 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261194AbVFFHro (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 03:47:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:47:45 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Willy Tarreau Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint Message-ID: <20050606074745.GC24826@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050605223528.GA13726@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050605223528.GA13726@alpha.home.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 6 June 2005 00:35:28 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I recently discovered p7zip which comes with the LZMA compression algorithm, > which is somewhat better than gzip and bzip2 on most datasets, [...] Hmmm. Citeseer has never heard of that algorithm, top 10 google hits for "LZMA compression algorithm" are completely uninformative. Does anyone actually know, what this algorithm is doing? Jörn -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan