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From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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On Sat, 11 Nov 1995, michael butler wrote:
> 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,

It'd be nice to have kernel-ppp speak "predictor-1" as well for 
completeness - but I dont have the inclination or expertise to spend the 
time to port the user-mode code to run in kernel-mode.  I'd certainly be 
willing to help where I could though.

Cheers,
-Peter

> 	michael