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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:14:30 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. 
Message-ID:  <200112182314.fBINEUO03453@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>  of "Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:05:23 %2B1300." <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2> 

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> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> 
> >  bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since
> >  4.4-RELEASE. :)  When I see the constant "who put another
> >  three KB into the kernel and thus broke release?" against the
> >  "9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the kernel"
> >  switching to bzip2 should give some room to breath(sp?).
> 
> Is there much difference in speed between the compression methods? That
> is, would bzip2 be an issue on older, low-spec machines?

bzip2 is expensive in the compression pass; I don't think decompression is
much different though.

btw, thanks to Gerhard for pointing out that I don't pay close enough
attention to my commit mail. 8)

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