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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 1995 19:19:53 +0800 (WST)
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
To:        michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
Cc:        Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi>, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org, brad@fcr.com, paulus@cs.anu.edu.au
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pppd RELNOTES
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951111191225.3810C-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: <199511111052.VAA09030@asstdc.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



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