From: Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
To: Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>
Cc: Axel Kittenberger <axel.kittenberger@univie.ac.at>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible Bootloader Optimization in inflate (get rid of unnecessary 32k Window)
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:01:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051225210118.GB1498@vanheusden.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051222183012.GA27353@buici.com>
> > > Have you timed this operation? I would predict that the time to copy
> > > the kernel is nominal as compared the the time taken to perform the
> > > decompression.
> > In the current version it is defleated AND copied. The optimization would
> > reduce it by 1 copy.
> Right. And the time to perform that one copy is exactly...?
> I doubt that it is a significant percentage of the whole operation.
On the other hand it makes the kernel a few bytes smaller :-)
Folkert van Heusden
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-25 21:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-22 12:52 Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-22 17:37 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-22 18:12 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-22 18:30 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-22 19:04 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-23 8:53 ` Hans Kristian Rosbach
2005-12-24 21:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-25 21:01 ` Folkert van Heusden [this message]
2005-12-25 21:10 ` Axel Kittenberger
2005-12-25 21:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-26 2:15 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-12-26 16:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
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