From owner-cvs-all Tue May 14 13:24:35 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail2.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D24E37B407; Tue, 14 May 2002 13:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alcanet.com.au (8.12.1/8.12.1/Alcanet1.2) with ESMTP id g4EKOSqK023628; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:28 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37645) with ESMTP id <01KHQWE9VC4W90NG02@cim.alcatel.com.au>; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:19 +1000 Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4EKOP01061917; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:25 +1000 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4EKOPjK061913; Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:25 +1000 (EST) Content-return: prohibited Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 06:24:25 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot2.c In-reply-to: <20020513183305.M43682@stylus.haikugeek.com>; from mini@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:33:05PM -0700 To: Jonathan Mini Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Mini , Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20020515062424.H18023@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i References: <200205112140.g4BLe0O46775@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020513183305.M43682@stylus.haikugeek.com> X-Authentication-warning: gsmx07.alcatel.com.au: jeremyp set sender to peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au using -f Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-May-13 18:33:05 -0700, Jonathan Mini 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