From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs
Date: 15 Oct 2001 15:53:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9qfpe1$esn$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151436040.755-100000@lisa.rhpk.springfield.inwind.it>
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110151436040.755-100000@lisa.rhpk.springfield.inwind.it>
By author: Cristiano Paris <c.paris@libero.it>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Third, is there any project which tries to implement bzip2 algorithm
> inside the kernel ? Does it give better compression ratios on 1-page-long
> data ?
>
No, in fact, it has been measured to be somewhere between the same and
significantly worse, even with the 32K chunk size that zisofs uses.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-15 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 13:06 libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs Cristiano Paris
2001-10-15 22:53 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-10-16 4:35 ` Keith Owens
2001-10-16 7:32 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-10-17 8:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-18 3:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 3:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-18 7:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 12:15 ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-18 17:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-17 8:45 ` David Woodhouse
2001-10-16 17:36 ` David Woodhouse
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