Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

[Jindrich Makovicka]

On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:41:03 +0200
devzero@xxxxxx wrote:

> oh - and think of linux software suspend.
> take a notebook with 2 GB of ram - that takes a while to write that
> to disk and read that back again. using lzo compression for this may
> probably halve the time for suspend/resume

There were already some attempts on merging of the lzf algorithm:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/26/215

Also, ffmpeg/libavcodec contains a much cleaner implementation of LZO
decompressor, with comparable performance (but no compressor yet I am
afraid).

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka

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