Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 13 Dec 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > We can put the > > decompressor in the image file. We should actually be able to switch > > decompressors and get better compression than what gunzip gives. > > If you are thinking about bzip2 be warned it requires 1MB or so of > temporary decompression buffers, when the input is maximally > compressed...
Actually I was thinking of upx, which is designed for compressing executables. It has a really small light weight decompressor. The small decompressor makes a real difference on moderately sized executables. And it does compress just a little bit better than gzip. Eric
