Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 19:03:29 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bzip2 vrs gzip saves me 28k on my kernel size Message-ID: <200007040203.TAA00596@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:19:02 BST." <395C6606.30675C5C@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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> > I'd hope we can put a bzip2's decompressor into the boot loader > and take out the gunzip code at the same time, making a nice > space saving. You are welcome to add bzip code to libz, and options to select the algorithm(s) that get built into libstand's zipfs, but gunzip support will never be "taken out" per se. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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