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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 1995 21:52:54 +1100 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Cc:        peter@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, brad@fcr.com, paulus@cs.anu.edu.au
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pppd RELNOTES
Message-ID:  <199511111052.VAA09030@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511110306.FAA06778@shadows.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Nov 11, 95 05:06:02 am

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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




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