From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:30:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F90CFE5.5000801@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310180018.21818.rob@landley.net>
Rob Landley wrote:
>I just rewrote bunzip2 for busybox in about 500 lines of C (and a good chunk
>of that's comments), which comiles to a bit under 7k, and I was thinking of
>redoing the bunzip-the-kernel patch with my new bunzip code, but I can't find
>the patch. Anybody got a URL to it?
>
>The most recent one I could find was kerneltrap's 404-error link to
>http://chrissicool.piranho.com/patch-2.4.x-bzip2-i386
>
This came up on the list a while back. IIRC the conclusion was that
runtime memory usage and speed, and not so significant compression
improvement over gzip.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-18 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-18 5:18 Rob Landley
2003-10-18 5:30 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-10-18 11:39 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-19 0:51 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-19 10:45 ` Michael Buesch
2003-10-19 21:04 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-19 21:27 ` Michael Buesch
2003-10-20 0:00 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 4:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-20 4:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-20 5:47 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 11:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-19 22:15 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-18 6:05 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-18 16:43 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-18 20:38 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 8:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-20 9:41 ` Rob Landley
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