Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?

[Nick Piggin]

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.


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