Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 07:45:05 +1300 (NZDT) From: Michael Hope <michaelh@earthling.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compressed executables in low memory environements Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990201074335.312B-100000@goldie.nest.pcmedia.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <36B428E6.EF822AE5@newsguy.com>
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You might be interested in the LZO library: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/lzo.html The compression isnt that great (files are, say, 15% bigger when compressed than the equivalent file compressed with gzip), but the decompression routine is _incredibly_ fast and doesnt require a dictonary. -- Michael On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > > It's quite doable, subject to finding the right compression algorithm. > > It would seem that any LZ variant with dictionary flush can do the > job... > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > > Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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