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From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms@myrealbox.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 kick FAR out of the zlib
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:49:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE0A9E5.9080000@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030605203108.GD22439@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de

Jörn Engel wrote:
> My words were "all or nothing".  Linus was against nothing, so the
> answer is all, that simple.
> 
> As to your "someone comes up with a better zlib" concern, this has
> happened already.  An guess what, we ignored it.  So unless you come
> up with a patch to get the 1.1.4 changes into the kernel and describe
> what the two magic bits are all about, I couldn't care less.

1.1.4 would be a waste of time at this point.  Better to wait for the 
upcoming 1.2.x release, which promises improved performance (esp. on 
x86) and better compression...

Cheers,
Nicholas



      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-06 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-05 19:46 [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 kick FAR out of the zlib Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:09 ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 zlib cleanup #2 ZEXTERN Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:18   ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 zlib cleanup #3 ZEXPORT Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:33     ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 zlib cleanup #4 z_off_t Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:38       ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:42         ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:49       ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 zlib cleanup #5 __32BIT__ and STDC Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 21:14         ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 zlib cleanup #6 OF Jörn Engel
2003-06-05 20:17 ` [Patch] 2.5.70-bk9 kick FAR out of the zlib Richard B. Johnson
2003-06-05 20:31   ` Jörn Engel
2003-06-06 14:49     ` Nicholas Wourms [this message]

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