From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261266AbVFFJr0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:47:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261267AbVFFJr0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:47:26 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:62098 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261266AbVFFJrW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2005 05:47:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:46:56 +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: <20050606094656.GA31739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20050605223528.GA13726@alpha.home.local> <20050606074745.GC24826@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20050606081928.GA15312@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: <20050606081928.GA15312@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 10:19:28 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:47:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > > > > 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? > > It's described here : > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA > > implemented here : > http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA > > and here : > http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html Thanks, but I already saw all three of those before I posted my reply. Guess the only way to tell is by reading the source... Jörn -- Correctness comes second. Features come third. Performance comes last. Maintainability is needed for all of them.