Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update compression algorithm info

[Lasse Collin]

On 2012-04-18 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/18/2012 09:40 AM, Lasse Collin wrote:
> >   - LZO should give the fastest boot from a hard disk (desktop
> >     systems where file size doesn't matter much).
> 
> That really depends on the speed of your disk vs CPU.

Yes. Maybe it isn't good to give so clear recommendation for LZO over
gzip here.

I think it is still safe to say that gzip and LZO are better than
bzip2, XZ, or LZMA for compressing a kernel that will be loaded from a
normal hard disk. It would be unusual if reading the disk was so slow
that e.g. XZ would make the booting faster than gzip.

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