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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:54:36 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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George Spelvin wrote:
> The code to fill it in is smaller than the table itself.
> Is it worth complicating things with some INIT code to reduce
> the stored image size?  (The table is not compressible.)

I think it matters not at all either way.

	-hpa