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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:14:23 +0200
From: "Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QCow v2
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1) size... win30.qcow is 7.5Mb (no compress) 3.5Mb (with zlib)
  it should go down between 2.2Mb and 2.5Mb with lzma

2) we can use lzma in a standalone compressor, and the decompressor is
pure C. So at least at the decompressor level, it's not really a dependency...

3) faster decompression...

On 7/4/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Christian MICHON wrote:
>
> > how about also adding lzma compression for qcow ?
>
> Why lzma? We already have a dependency on zlib, why not just take that?
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
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-- 
Christian