Arthur Machlas put forth on 12/29/2009 10:06 AM: > I read somewhere that although optimize for size will decrease the size > of the kernel on the disk, not optimizing for size will increase the > performance of the kernel, at least during the boot stage, as it won't > be compressed and can be read without having to uncompress it first. Is > this mistaken? If not, given the size of most hard disks, I'd rather > have the kernel take up an extra few mb's in order to have a faster boot > time. No?
The answer lies somewhere in here, but it is not as simple and black and white as you currently believe: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7269 -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org