On Tuesday 17 June 2008 17:54:27 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 23:02 +0800, Bean wrote: > > I'm not against other compression algorithm, but lzma seems to be the > > best, for example, for the previous c2.img: > > > > bzip2 c2.img && du -b c2.img.bz2 > > 29247 c2.img.bz2 > > > > gzip c2.img && du -b c2.img.gz > > 29825 c2.img.gz > > We need numbers for all compression algorithms for the code that would > actually be compressed, not the whole image, which includes the > multiboot header, the lzo uncompression implementation and some other > functions. > > Anyway, it looks like gzip is doing a good job. By the way, gzip > uncompression is used in Linux kernel on i386.
Maybe as I said before, I already measured the size with LZO and gzip in PUPA, and LZO won (after adding the decompression code). That was why I chose LZO. Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
