Re: libz, libbz2, ramfs and cramfs

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Oct 15 2001 - 17:53:53 EST

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By author: Cristiano Paris <c.paris@libero.it>
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>
> Third, is there any project which tries to implement bzip2 algorithm
> inside the kernel ? Does it give better compression ratios on 1-page-long
> data ?
>

No, in fact, it has been measured to be somewhere between the same and
significantly worse, even with the 32K chunk size that zisofs uses.

-hpa

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