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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com
Subject: Re: Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:19:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050606081928.GA15312@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050606074745.GC24826@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:47:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> On Mon, 6 June 2005 00:35:28 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 
> > I recently discovered p7zip which comes with the LZMA compression algorithm,
> > which is somewhat better than gzip and bzip2 on most datasets, [...]
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> Citeseer has never heard of that algorithm, top 10 google hits for
> "LZMA compression algorithm" are completely uninformative.  Does
> anyone actually know, what this algorithm is doing?

It's described here :
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA

implemented here :
   http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA

and here :
   http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-06  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-05 22:35 Easy trick to reduce kernel footprint Willy Tarreau
2005-06-05 23:41 ` Christian Leber
2005-06-06  1:02 ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06  4:11   ` Willy Tarreau
2005-06-06 11:07     ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06 11:43       ` Willy Tarreau
2005-06-06 20:16         ` Wakko Warner
2005-06-06  1:10 ` Christian Leber
2005-06-06  7:47 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-06  5:55   ` Oliver Leitner
2005-06-06  8:19   ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2005-06-06  9:46     ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-06  8:31   ` Christian Leber

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