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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:37:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        "Eduardo Morras" <nec556@retena.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memory pool, rfc
Message-ID:  <2703.208.70.104.211.1193877447.squirrel@webmail.ibctech.ca>
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> 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




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