From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 14:04:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44722756.5090902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605222200.18351.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Alistair John Strachan wrote:
>
> I would, but if it's a "valid concern" that gzip is a few hundred KB larger,
> and the community would not graciously receive such work, there's not much
> point, is there? :-)
>
> Seriously, though, if I understand gzip correctly, it uses deflate/zlib
> internally. Why, in that case, does /bin/gzip not (dynamically) link against
> libz? If a first step was fixing that, a second could be linking dynamically
> against libbz2 and 'liblzma', and making it all compile-time configurable.
>
Because gzip predates zlib...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-22 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-21 14:35 Linux Kernel Source Compression Justin Piszcz
2006-05-21 18:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-21 18:56 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-05-21 19:28 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-05-22 2:05 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-21 19:03 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21 21:22 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 21:42 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 21:57 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-21 22:22 ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-21 22:29 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-21 21:59 ` Diego Calleja
2006-05-22 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:07 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 19:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 19:15 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 20:24 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-22 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-05-22 21:00 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-22 21:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-05-22 21:11 ` Joshua Hudson
2006-05-23 13:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 2:16 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-23 2:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-23 14:15 ` Ivan Novick
2006-05-23 14:23 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-05-23 14:47 ` Julian Seward
2006-05-23 16:35 ` Nuri Jawad
2006-05-25 11:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-31 22:51 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-23 13:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-23 15:28 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-31 22:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-05-26 4:11 ` Bruce Guenter
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