David Naylor wrote: > Is there any plan to add bzip2 to loader (i.e. bzip2 modules and kernel) or to > geom_uzip? If not is there a good reason why it is avoided or just a case of > lacking developer interest (or time)? > bzip2 uses a block-sorting compression algorithm, which requires significantly larger amounts of memory to operate than gzip, which uses a dictionary-based compression algorithm. As such, gzip is more appropriate for use in boot-time and/or embedded environments, which often have limited heap space.Received on Sun Apr 27 2008 - 23:25:59 UTC
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