Re: Possible Bootloader Optimization in inflate (get rid of unnecessary 32k Window)

From: Marc Singer
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 13:30:21 EST


On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:12:38PM +0100, Axel Kittenberger wrote:
> > Have you timed this operation? I would predict that the time to copy
> > the kernel is nominal as compared the the time taken to perform the
> > decompression.
>
> In the current version it is defleated AND copied. The optimization would
> reduce it by 1 copy.

Right. And the time to perform that one copy is exactly...?

I doubt that it is a significant percentage of the whole operation.

>
> Greetings, Axel
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