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

[Folkert van Heusden]

> > > 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.

On the other hand it makes the kernel a few bytes smaller :-)


Folkert van Heusden

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