From: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
To: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Subject: [OpenRISC] [RFC PATCH] treewide: remove bzip2 compression support
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:39:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1608075451.ootu1tx25o.none@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201215190315.8681-1-alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Excerpts from Alex Xu (Hello71)'s message of December 15, 2020 2:03 pm:
> bzip2 is either slower or larger than every other supported algorithm,
> according to benchmarks at [0]. It is far slower to decompress than any
> other algorithm, and still larger than lzma, xz, and zstd.
>
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none at localhost/
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Upon further research, I found that bzip2 removal was already
implemented as part of zstd addition, but were apparently abandoned in
an effort to get zstd in. I will check those patches and try sending
those instead. Thanks to all reviewers for comments on this patch.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 23:39 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20201215190315.8681-1-alex_y_xu.ref@yahoo.ca>
2020-12-15 19:03 ` [OpenRISC] [RFC PATCH] treewide: remove bzip2 compression support Alex Xu
2020-12-15 21:51 ` Michal =?unknown-8bit?q?Such=C3=A1nek?=
2020-12-15 23:39 ` Alex Xu [this message]
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