Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:25 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot2.c Message-ID: <20020515062424.H18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20020513183305.M43682@stylus.haikugeek.com>; from mini@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:33:05PM -0700 References: <200205112140.g4BLe0O46775@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020513183305.M43682@stylus.haikugeek.com>
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On 2002-May-13 18:33:05 -0700, Jonathan Mini <mini@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: >Have we considered compressing the strings using come nefariously lame >compression mechanism? > >ASCII text tends to compress really well even with methods that have really >small decompression algorithms. There's a total of ~110 bytes of ASCII in boot2. It's very unlikely that any compression scheme is going to come out ahead. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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