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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pppd RELNOTES
To: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
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Heikki Suonsivu writes:

> Has anyone looked at it, if it could be modified to do zip compression
> instead.

ZIP is computationally expensive .. you'll speed most of your time in the
kernel and little doing much else. The "predictor-1" algorithm already in
use by iij-ppp is a lightweight alternative,

	michael