On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 07:57:46PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > The "favourite compressor" seems to roughly change every year, so if > > we keep adding new ones things will get more and more convoluted. > > The above patchset drops just bzip2. It is the only one that's strictly > beaten in every way (ratio, time, memory usage), there are also no other
Does time include build time? I've been reverting back to gzip recently because I care very much about that. > uses of bzip2 anywhere in the kernel so we'd get to drop its code > completely: 900 lines of Linus' happiness. Great! > > Other candidates are lzo and bare lzma (you want lz4, zstd or xz instead), > but those are used elsewhere thus there's hardly any gain. If you want them > gone, please say so -- I'll include their droppage. Yes would be good to remove the kernel image support for those too just to simplify the config process, even if it doesn't save much code. -Andi
