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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:22:48 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Toomas Soome <tsoome@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers <src-committers@FreeBSD.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r304321 - in head/sys: boot/efi/boot1 boot/efi/loader boot/i386/boot2 boot/i386/gptboot boot/i386/gptzfsboot boot/i386/zfsboot boot/userboot/ficl boot/userboot/userboot boot/userboot/zf...
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On 22/08/2016 17:56, Toomas Soome wrote:
> Actually I only now realized I was comparing apples with oranges… I forgot
> the fbsd builds 32bit version in ficl32, this one is 64bit. and yes the 32bit
> version is not that big at all:D
> 
> Also, after done some digging, I have found few instances of duplicated code
> (we can share sha2 with geli and so if sha512 is already needed, it will
> become another “free lunch”). Also, unless I’m mistaken, for some reason the
> bzip *compression* is brought in - correct me if I’m wrong, but afaik only
> decompression is needed…
> 
> So before going after “useless features”, there are some “hidden” resources
> to remove extra fat.

I certainly agree with this and those things would be good to do.
But if we do not change the trend then sooner or later we will run out of things
that we can optimize.  But it's also possible that the current limitations will
be a history by then.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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