From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net
Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:51:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F91E01C.4090507@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066477155.5606.34.camel@sonja>
Daniel Egger wrote:
>Am Sam, den 18.10.2003 schrieb Nick Piggin um 07:30:
>
>
>>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.
>>
>
>I quick test with a PowerPC kernel and the normal vmlinux image reveals
>that this is nonsense.
>
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2766490 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1149410 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.gz
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1062999 2003-09-27 22:29 vmlinux.bz2
>
>This is a 86411 bytes or 8.1% reduction, seems significant to me...
>
Sure, it might be worth it in some cases. I didn't mean improvement
wasn't measurable at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-19 0:51 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
2003-10-18 11:39 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-19 0:51 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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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