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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:45:54 -0600
From:      James <oscartheduck@gmail.com>
To:        "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        Eduardo Morras <nec556@retena.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory pool, rfc
Message-ID:  <d59e90ab0710311745q7a7c81dmb65e831b61bd09a2@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/31/07, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:
>
> > I think that in this list are FreeBSD
> > *gurus*/hacks too which could say a "try it" or a "are you crazy?"
> > answer. If other developers thinks that they need my rfc i'll add my
> > code to FreeBSD.
>
> Agreed, so could it be added as a port, or can you license the code
> with the BSD license and post a link to it?
>
> To be honest, from what you say about your application, it sounds
> beneficial. I personally would be willing to try it on one of the
> boxes that I boot from removable USB disk and run the entire OS in
> memory, with no hard disk whatsoever.
>
> > The point to zlib / libbzip2 is because when i talk about compression
> >  *always* someone says " Why don't use zlib?" Short answer No, Medium
> >  Answer: deflate is 15 years old and there are better and faster algs
> > now.
>
> Understood. Can you provide a compilable product with reasonable
> documentation that can be tested?
>
> Steve


And is it better than bzip?


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