On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:33:59PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:39AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it > > for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). > > For boot blocks or boot loaders?
Ask Christos. I don't use it for that purpose myself (I use it for a number of other things a very fast compressor is useful for, like network data streams and backups). I am guessing what he was after was small size and fast decompression (for some resource-constrained platform?). The bottom line is that I had the code in my local tree, someone whose technical opinion I respect sufficiently to simply check it in on his request made the request, and so I did. As I said earlier, if you want to remove 3-5000 bytes from the system, I can recommend some much better candidates. Thor
